"I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles,……" — Joseph Conrad
"I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
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I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with…
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep…
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a…
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I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into…
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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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