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Letter "J" » Joseph Conrad Quotes
«As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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mediaeval
«To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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languages
«All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind»
«Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.»
«History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«Going home must be like going to render an account.»
«In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.»
«You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.»
«Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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