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" Where could he have gone to, after all these years? Not a single soul belonging to him lived anywhere on earth. Of this fact — not such a remote one, after all — he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself... "
Victory: An Island Tale - Page 75
by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 444 pages
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - Abused women - 1921 - 442 pages
...he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...feelings. Meantime Schomberg watched Heyst out of the corner of his eye. Towards the unconscious object of his enmity he preserved a distant Lieutenant-of-theReserve...
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VICTORY

JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...all—he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings. meanour. Nudging certain of his customers with his elbow, he begged them to observe what airs "that...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...all—he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings, v Meantime Schomberg watched Heyst out of the corner of his eye. Towards the unconscious object of...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad: The shadow line

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...had only lately become aware; I for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and r reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...feelings. Meantime Schomberg watched Heyst out of the corner of his eye. Towards the unconscious object of his enmity he preserved a distant Lieutenant-of-theReserve...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 446 pages
...he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...by this sense of loneliness which had come to him hi the hour of renunciation. It hurt him. Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 15

Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up — Els mind to retire from the world in hermit fashion, yet...feelings. Meantime Schomberg watched Heyst out of the corner of his eye. Towards the unconscious object of his enmity he preserved a distant Lieutenant-of-theReserve...
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Victory

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...renunciation. It hurt him. Nothing is more painful than the shocJ* of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings. Meantime Schomberg...
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The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual ...

Christopher Lane - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 348 pages
...ruminate on his failed relationship with Morrison and the "hour of renunciation" that replaced it: "Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings" (110). The noise "pursues" Heyst with its ceaseless repetition until, "driven to desperation," he abandons...
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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

Neil Peart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 477 pages
...he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings. "I'll drift," Heyst had said to himself deliberately. He did not mean intellectually or sentimentally...
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Victory, an Island Tale

Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 430 pages
...he had only lately become aware; for it is failure that makes a man enter into himself and reckon up his resources. And though he had made up his mind...feelings. Meantime Schomberg watched Heyst out of the earner of his eye. Towards the unconscious object of his enmity he preserved a distant Lieutenant-of-theReserve...
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