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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Humans, Conscience

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.30, Broadview Press

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• Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

  Joseph Conrad

  Fashion, Memories, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

  Joseph Conrad

  Victory, Desire, Belief

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.77, e-artnow

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• It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Long, Making Love

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.307, e-artnow

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• A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Records, Body, May

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Nostromo”, p.241, Joseph Conrad

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• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Moving, Pride

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1116, e-artnow

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• I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

  Joseph Conrad

  Littles, Homesick

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Nostromo”, p.58, Joseph Conrad

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• You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sleep, Literature, Waking

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

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• Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Forgiveness, Compassion, Care

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.371, Joseph Conrad

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• I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

  Joseph Conrad

  Voice, Evil, Speech

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Morning, Eight, Sitting Down

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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• It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

  Joseph Conrad

  Darkness, Core, Hollow

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.63, Xist Publishing

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• Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Soul, Literature, Forget

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.18, e-artnow

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• It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Loneliness, Eye

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.167, McClure, Phillips & Company

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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 form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Strong, Pride, Reality

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Sentimental, Looks

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

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• The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Moon, Men

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Choices, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.592, e-artnow

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• 5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Citizens, Care

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• He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

  Joseph Conrad

  Darkness, Fascination, Midst

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

  Joseph Conrad

  Tasks, Feels

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• One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

  Joseph Conrad

  Pulse, Fingers

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Rotten, Reeds

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.3137, e-artnow

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