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Upon Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the…
- What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer…
- In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
- A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a…
- Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as…
- A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of…
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.…
- 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…
- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation…
- I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other,…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
- All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood