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Them Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
- You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners…
- A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
- When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
- For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made…
- The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
- Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
- Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the…
- They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could…
- They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
- I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid…
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