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" You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just as well not to come too close to the shrine. But I have a clear notion of woman. In all of them, termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce... "
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts - Page 353
by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 447 pages
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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Joseph Conrad - Children of prisoners - 1913 - 486 pages
...MjinJ_wg_know, cannot live by bread_alqne,_but hang me iTrdon'tbelieve tnat~s5me women could live by_Iove_alpne. If there be a flame in human beings fed by varied...something left, if only a spark. And when there is a sparfc there can always be a flame. . . ." He went back into the shadow, sat down again and said :...
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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Joseph Conrad - Children of prisoners - 1914 - 502 pages
...strode out of the shadow as if lifted by indignation, but there was the Sicker of a smile onJbis_hjjs. "You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just as well...something left, if only a spark. And when there is a -park there can always be a tlanie, . . ." He went back into the shadow, sat down again and said: "I...
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Chance

Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 450 pages
...and spiritual which tinge it in differ-j ent hues, then I seem to see the colour of theirs. It isj azure . . . What the devil are you laughing at? ....But I have a clear notion of woman. In all of them, termagantLJlirt, crank^ washerwoman, blue-stocking, }m]Ecast and eyen~in the~oF3inary fool of the ordinary...
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Conrad and Gender

Andrew Michael Roberts - Law - 1993 - 164 pages
...pattern, and her humanity is thereby denied. Erdinast- Vulcan quotes Marlow saying to the frame-narrator: You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just as well...when there is a spark there can always be a flame . . . (353) She comments that 'he has clearly come a long way since the beginning of his tale' (Erdinast-...
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Brüchiges Seemannsgarn: Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im Werk Joseph Conrads

Julika Griem - 1995 - 348 pages
...Wissen um ein allen gemeinsames Wesen ersetzt wird: " 'You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just äs well not to come too close to the shrine. But I have a clear notion of woman" (C 292). Dieses Konstrukt namens "woman" bzw. "femininity" kann selbst von einem Mann erfahren werden,...
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Victory: An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins - Fiction - 2004 - 404 pages
...This 'dryness of the heart' is echoed in Chance with specific reference to women in Marlow's comment: '"You say I don't know women. Maybe. It's just as...close to the shrine. But I have a clear notion of miman." ' 9 In Victory, Chance, and the two stories Conrad aimed to reveal his understanding of'woman'...
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