Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser'…

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Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2015). The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense … ▶
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness … ▶
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamo … ▶
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholes … ▶
And this also, said Marlow suddenly, has been one of the dark places of the earth. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2010). Heart of Darkness, p.6, Bibliolis Books

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.

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