But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. -Joseph Conrad

 

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.


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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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All a man can betray is his conscience.

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