There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an afte…

Joseph Conrad
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ✨ Joseph Conrad (1905). Lord Jim, p.31, McClure, Phillips & Company
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