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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics) QUOTES

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics) QUOTES

1 " The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

2 " It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

3 " It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

4 " But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

5 " Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straight-forward pathway had been lost. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

6 " Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

7 " One rule holds good of most young men—whether rich or poor. They never have money for the necessaries of life, but they have always money to spare for their caprices—an anomaly which finds its explanation in their youth and in the almost frantic eagerness with which youth grasps at pleasure. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

8 " Good gracious! "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

9 " No, I’d rather be like myself, bad as I am. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

10 " It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

11 " If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

12 " And to a place I come where nothing shines. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

13 " Our fatherland is suffering, not from the incursion of a score of alien tongues, but from our own acts, in that, in addition to the lawful administration, there has grown up a second administration possessed of infinitely greater powers than the system established by law. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

14 " Those who tow'rds Acheron do not descend. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

15 " don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

16 " The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

17 " having been a valetudinarian "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

18 " Thither went afterwards the Chosen Vessel, To bring back comfort thence unto that Faith, Which of salvation's way is the beginning. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

19 " She leant back while the more earnest members of the club began to misconstrue her. The female mind, though cruelly practical in daily life, cannot bear to hear ideals belittled in conversation, and Miss Schlegel was asked however she could say such dreadful things, and what it would profit Mr. Bast if he gained the whole world and lost his own soul. She answered: “Nothing, but he would not gain his soul until he had gained a little of the world.” Then they said no they did not believe it, and she admitted that an overworked clerk may save his soul in the superterrestrial sense, where the effort will be taken for the deed, but she denied that he will ever explore the spiritual resources of this world, will ever know the rarer joys of the body, or attain to clear and passionate intercourse with his fellows. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

20 " Envy and Arrogance and Avarice Are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled. "

― Joseph Conrad , 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)