I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul. Victory - Page 200by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
| JOSEP CONRAD - 1921 - 534 pages
...has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." have preferred to be killed outright—that is, to have his soul despatched to another world, rather... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 442 pages
...has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered...not yet know how to live; that human being so near \s' I and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his ownjeality than he had ever known in all... | |
| Henry J. Donaghy - 1983 - 132 pages
...solitude, and a self that is divided. The novel's epigram is from Conrad: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." Maurice Castle's soul is corrupted because a tie of gratitude exists between him and a Communist friend.... | |
| John G. Cawelti, Bruce A. Rosenberg - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 284 pages
...(Escape, p. 228). Two sentences of Joseph Conrad's are quoted in the epigraph: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." That is the problem with the human factor; it cannot be predicted or controlled as precisely as some... | |
| Carlos Ramet - Social Science - 1999 - 180 pages
...— a man who wished to live alone — for the epigraph to The Human Factor: "I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul."" In The Man from St. Petersburg, Follett takes as an epigraph a statement by Graham Greene: "One can't... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 430 pages
...has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered...soul." Heyst's tone was light, with the flavour of playf ulness which seasoned all his speeches and seemed to be of the very essence of his thoughts.... | |
| Muriel Clara Bradbrook - Novelists, English - 1942 - 100 pages
...has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul. (Victory, pp. 199-200) The world went by appearance and called us friends, as far as I can remember.... | |
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