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In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sti — Joseph Conrad
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, ou — Joseph Conrad
In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life and human destiny, — Bertrand Russell, Portraits From Memory and Other Essays
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of — Tom Conrad
The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the nove — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind t — Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer scree — Tom Conrad
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like wa — Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey — Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europ — Ernest Rutherford
After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved w — Arnold Sommerfeld, Atombau Und Spektrallinien
He told me he was used to getting what he wanted. — Celia Conrad, A Model Murder
Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad. — John le Carré, The Russia House
Look to the past to see what the future holds. — Celia Conrad, Wilful Murder
Wait!" he yelled.I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost — Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teet — Tom Conrad
For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them — Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?” I q — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a po — Joseph Conrad