Joseph Conrad Quotes

That Propensity Of Lifting Every Problem From The Plane Of The Understandable By Means Of Some Sort Of Mystic Expression, Is Very Russian. I Knew Her Well Enough To Have Discovered Her Scorn For All The Practical Forms Of Political Liberty Known To The Western World. I Suppose One Must Be A Russian To Understand Russian Simplicity, A Terrible Corroding Simplicity In Which Mystic Phrases Clothe A Naive And Hopeless Cynicism. I Think Sometimes That The Psychological Secret Of The Profound Difference Of That People Consists In This, That They Detest Life, The Irremediable Life Of The Earth As It Is, Whereas We Westerners Cherish It With Perhaps An Equal Exaggeration Of Its Sentimental Value. But This Is A Digression Indeed ...

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