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«Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Soul
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elected, hopelessness, horror, Joy of, pilgrimage, skirt, skirted, The Pilgrimage, vanquished, vanquishes
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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absentminded, accent, Archimedes, commands, engines, lever, levers, mathematical
«There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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cigar, enliven, enlivened, enlivens, fable, here and there, strife
«Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!»
«The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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courtier, courtiers, Go West, monarch, quarter, shipwreck, shipwrecked, South West, south wind, sway, the South, westerly, west wind, Wild West
«The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Mind
«The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development»
«He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it!»
«His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed.»
«Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.»
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