"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outca...

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We live as we dream--alone....

More Joseph Conrad quotes
"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
"how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitude--utter solitude withou...
"No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--it...
"It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling...
"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
"She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...