Origine: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 13
Contesto: 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 of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.

“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Contesto: 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 length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Cuore di tenebra

Origine: Heart of Darkness

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”

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Origine: Heart of Darkness

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. IV, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

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Origine: Heart of Darkness

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

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Origine: Heart of Darkness

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…”

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Origine: Heart of Darkness

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”

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Origine: Heart of Darkness

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Origine: Under Western Eyes (1911)
Contesto: 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 length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”

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Variante: Gossip is what no one claims to like – but everybody enjoys.

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Origine: Lord Jim