Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““Haven´t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801?" - The Duel”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Dude. If that was a Shakespearean quote duel, he just kicked your ass.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
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“...we'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.” — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
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“And, truth be told, I'm curious myself. I wouldn't want Goodfellow dying before we ever resolved our duel. That would be unfortunate.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Today I have come for a duel. Let's see which is greater - your depth or the depth of my sorrows.” — Akshay Shirsat Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
