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Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer

1857–1924

33 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Truth & Lies and Money.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. I
- Talking
- Truth & Lies
You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies⁠—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world⁠—what I want to forget.
Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Truth & Lies
Perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context

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