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«'The horror! The horror!»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.»
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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detached, detaching, eyed, informed, mystic, open-eyed, resignation, sham, shams
«The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
«It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.»
«The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.»
«It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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grapple, grappled, grappling, incomprehensible, misty, warmth, wavered, wavering, wavers
«The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.»
«A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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