Joseph Conrad: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

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“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 conscience.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

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

“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way — but Bankok!”

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Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)

“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.”

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Joseph Conrad libro Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 11
Nostromo (1904)

“Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour — of youth!… A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and — goodbye!”

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Night — Goodbye!
Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)

“Socialism must inevitably end in Caesarism. ... Disestablishment, Land Reform, Universival Brotherhood are but like milestones on the road to ruin.”

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Letter (19 December 1885), sent by Conrad from Calcutta to Joseph Spiridion in England, quoted in: [Najder, Zdzisław, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 106, https://books.google.com/books?id=F8ANmy_7mTMC&pg=PA106, 2007, Camden House, 978-1-57113-347-2]

“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.”

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Joseph Conrad libro L'agente segreto

Origine: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 8