Quote #61
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
More from Joseph Conrad
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
- Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at len…
- They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his consci…
- All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes …
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most mis…
- To the destruction of what is.
- A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.