Joseph Conrad Quotes on Illusion
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.