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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... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods. It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best representative ...
... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods. It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best representative ...
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... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while, but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to, which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while, but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to, which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
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... , the rattling of dominoes through a blue atmosphere of tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town next day. Or perhaps they had only migrated to the other big cafe, on the other side of the Place de la Comedie. It is very.
... , the rattling of dominoes through a blue atmosphere of tobacco smoke. I believe that those people left the town next day. Or perhaps they had only migrated to the other big cafe, on the other side of the Place de la Comedie. It is very.
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... perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking, a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a ...
... perhaps it was some sort of enchantment. There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. Roughly speaking, a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a ...
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... Perhaps that was it. A man who could propose, even playfully, to quench old McNab's thirst must have been a utopist, a pursuer of chimeras; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal. And, may be, this was the reason why he was ...
... Perhaps that was it. A man who could propose, even playfully, to quench old McNab's thirst must have been a utopist, a pursuer of chimeras; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal. And, may be, this was the reason why he was ...
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