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Joseph Conrad

Youth, a Narrative

  • Фроhas quoted8 years ago
    You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't.
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    never saw her again... Pass the bottle.
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    Then to us: ‘A sailor has no business with a wife—I say. There I was, out of the ship. Well, no harm done this time. Let’s go and look at what that fool of a steamer smashed.’
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    sixty-year-old. Just imagine that old fellow saving heroically in his arms that old woman—the woman of his life
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour. I was never so surprised in my life
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    Then somebody was heard saying, ‘All clear, sir.’... ‘Are you all right?’ asked the gruff voice. I had jumped
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    fore-end of a steamer loomed up close. I shouted down the cabin, ‘Come up, quick!’ and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark, ‘Stop her, sir.’ A bell jingled. Another
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    took sixteen days in all to get from London to the Tyne! When
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    ‘This means another month in this beastly hole,’ said Mahon to me, as we peered with lamps about the splintered bulwarks and broken braces. ‘But where’s the captain?’
  • MMhas quoted6 years ago
    heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore-rigging. There
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