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Letter "J" » Joseph Conrad Quotes
«You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.»
«I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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not for
«He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes.»
«Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Loneliness
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conventional, hugs, mask, naked, outcast, terror, The Lonely, wears
«God is for men and religion is for women»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
God
«He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.»
«It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.»
«I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Back to Earth, come back, Death itself, deceitful, dim, dimmed, dims, every year, expire, expires, expiring, glow, handful, heat, lured, lures, luring, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, perils, The Glow, too soon, triumphant
«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 be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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dormant, dullness, extraordinary, incalculable, supportable, welcome
«Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow»
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