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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.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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coldness, disgust, display, humiliated, humiliating, missed, restraint, shaft, shafting, shafts, temperamental, The Mark of, unavoidably, unduly
«The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.»
«You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.»
«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?»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
accumulated, an episode, clearer, documentary, episode, episodes, imagined, selected, verisimilitude
«I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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clamor, clamoring, contest, grayness, Great Fear, impalpable, spectators, underfoot, unexciting, wrestled, wrestles
«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.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence»
«It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull»
«There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.»
«Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory»
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