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“ No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. ”

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Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

~ Joseph Conrad

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

~ Joseph Conrad

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

~ Joseph Conrad

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

~ Joseph Conrad