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  1. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!
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  2. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.
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  3. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. . . . Ja! . . . And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott im Himmel! How can that be? Ha! ha! ha!"'The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously.
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  4. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.
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  5. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression.And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
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  6. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    It was a dark story.
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  7. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    doomed to be the recipient of confidences...
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  8. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty-all equal before sleep, death's brother.
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  9. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the reminders of our folly, of our weakness, of our mortality; all that makes against our efficiency - the memory of our failures, the hints of our undying fears, the bodies of our dead friends.
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  10. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.
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  11. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
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  12. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
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