VictoryOnce regarded as comparatively minor amongst Conrad's works, Victory has grown in reputation. Its depiction of the central character, Axel Heyst, and his renunciation of the world, is influenced by Conrad's reading of Schopenhauer. |
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... Heyst sees the power of blind destiny. Besides, Heyst in his fine detachment had lost the habit of asserting himself. I don't mean the courage of selfassertion, either moral or physical, but the mere way of it, the trick of the thing ...
... Heyst sees the power of blind destiny. Besides, Heyst in his fine detachment had lost the habit of asserting himself. I don't mean the courage of selfassertion, either moral or physical, but the mere way of it, the trick of the thing ...
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... Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among ourselvesbut not inimically. An inert body can do no harm to anyone, provokes no hostility, is scarcely worth derision. It may, indeed, be in the way sometimes; but this could not be ...
... Heyst, at which we "out there" used to laugh among ourselvesbut not inimically. An inert body can do no harm to anyone, provokes no hostility, is scarcely worth derision. It may, indeed, be in the way sometimes; but this could not be ...
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... Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father. It was not a mean store. But he never did that. Afraid of mosquitoes, very likely. Neither was he ever tempted by the silence to ...
... Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father. It was not a mean store. But he never did that. Afraid of mosquitoes, very likely. Neither was he ever tempted by the silence to ...
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... Heyst did not depart. I met a man oncethe manager of the branch of the Oriental Banking Corporation in Malaccato whom Heyst exclaimed, in no connection with anything in particular (it was in the billiardroom of the club): "I am ...
... Heyst did not depart. I met a man oncethe manager of the branch of the Oriental Banking Corporation in Malaccato whom Heyst exclaimed, in no connection with anything in particular (it was in the billiardroom of the club): "I am ...
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... Heyst he said, with that deliberate sagacity which no mere waterdrinker ever attained: "Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman. Puffect! But he's a ututoutopist." Heyst had just gone out of the place of public refreshment where this pronouncement ...
... Heyst he said, with that deliberate sagacity which no mere waterdrinker ever attained: "Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman. Puffect! But he's a ututoutopist." Heyst had just gone out of the place of public refreshment where this pronouncement ...
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