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It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence...
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Joseph Conrad |
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I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
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moving-on
hope
final-departure
last-goodbye
last-sight
lost-friends
picture-metaphor
life-goes-on
moving-on-and-letting-go
getting-over-it
leaving
remembering
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Joseph Conrad |
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You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something -- and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little -- not a thing in the world -- not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
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Joseph Conrad |
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He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.
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suicide
depression
danger-to-self
depressive
depressive-thinking
indifferent
look-for-hope
look-for-jesus
why-the-world-needs-jesus
baggage
emotional-plague
emotional-pain
apathy
suicidal
dread
burden
sick
guilt
sad
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Joseph Conrad |
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The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.
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Joseph Conrad |
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And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Joseph Conrad |
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You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.
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Joseph Conrad |
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The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there-- there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.
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Joseph Conrad |
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He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you.
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Joseph Conrad |
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It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity--like yours--the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you ..
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savagery
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Joseph Conrad |
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The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.
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Joseph Conrad |
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The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries..acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvellous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural...
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Joseph Conrad |
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All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity -- it is to destroy it.
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truth
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Joseph Conrad |
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The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
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Joseph Conrad |
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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travel
ship
water
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Joseph Conrad |
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Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.
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Joseph Conrad |
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There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.
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grief
futility
depression
hope
dark-history
falling-short
haunted-past
smoke-in-the-eyes
why-the-world-needs-jesus
unrest
pointlessness
bittersweet-memories
sins
heartache
vanity
disappointment
expectations
despair
regrets
nostalgia
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Joseph Conrad |
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She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
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Joseph Conrad |
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The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.
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Joseph Conrad |
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We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account. We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties,--e..
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mankind
humanity
family
home-town
prodigal-daughters
prodigal-sons
stomping-grounds
old-friends
homecoming
reunion
return
home
ghosts
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Joseph Conrad |
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The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.
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Joseph Conrad |
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It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
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strength
nursing
recovery
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Joseph Conrad |
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There are more kinds of fools than one can guard against.
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Joseph Conrad |
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In the destructive element immerse.
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Joseph Conrad |
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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reputation
appearances
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Joseph Conrad |
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They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities, and their audacities are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, the confidence, the emotion and principle, every great and every insig..
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Joseph Conrad |
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The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowle..
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life
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Joseph Conrad |
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Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
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Joseph Conrad |
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You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.
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lies
temperament
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Joseph Conrad Fehr |
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We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, --- even those for whom home holds no dear face, no familiar voice, --- even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its tress--- a mute f..
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individuality
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Joseph Conrad |
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The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Do you know how I would call the nature of the present economic conditions? I would call it cannibalistic. That's what it is! They are nourishing their greed on the quivering flesh and the warm blood of the people - nothing else.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, ..
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maps
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Joseph Conrad |
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Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.
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Joseph Conrad |
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The vision seemed to enter the house with me--the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart--the heart of a conquering darkness.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Mistah Kurtz--he dead.
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Joseph Conrad |
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dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of.
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Joseph Conrad |
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Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
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loneliness
hate
mortality
immortality
friends
love
lifeboat
stranded
desperate
blame
society
enemies
guilt
mental-illness
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Joseph Conrad |
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law is) the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry ?
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Joseph Conrad |
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A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.
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Joseph Conrad |
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You revolutionists' the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, 'are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionize it. It governs your action, too, and thus neither your thought nor your action can ever be conclusive. (...) 'You are not a bit better than the forces arrayed against..
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Joseph Conrad |
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The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Joseph Conrad |