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Very 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…
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
- Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the…
- A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
- As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
- His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded…
- Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in…
- Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,…
- It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may…
- Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
- The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the…
- It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong