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Joseph Conrad1857–1924

Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust but your minds. I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies. I do not mean to be offensive; it is respectable to have no illusions⁠—and safe⁠—and profitable⁠—and dull.

Joseph Conrad on thinking

Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 21

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