All a man can betray is his conscience.
Tag: Joseph Conrad
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Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
We live, as we dream, alone
We live as we dream – alone.