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We live as we dream - alone.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

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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 pretense but an idea.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness

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