“As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves.” — Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record
Tag: Joseph Conrad
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“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.” — Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.” — Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Arrow of Gold
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“The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.” — Joseph Conrad, Victory
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“The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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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 by the consistent narrowness of his outlook.” — Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record
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“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.” — Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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“Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.” — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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