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 unextinguishable regrets. Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 171af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1927 - 554 sider
...of Darkness, "that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself— that...too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets." And Stevenson: Although we have some experience of living, there is not a man on earth who has flown... | |
| 1926 - 536 sider
...Darkness, "that mysterious ar—138— rangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that...too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets." And Stevenson : Although we have some experience of living, there is not a man on earth who has flown... | |
| 1899 - 1284 sider
...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...contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 sider
...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...It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine, i It takes place in an impalpable gray ness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 sider
...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...contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without... | |
| 1922 - 550 sider
...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."17 And again: "All this is life, must be life, since it is so much like a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 sider
...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...underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 sider
...knowledgextf yourself—that pomes tooJateF-^ a crop of unextinguishable regrets. I_hayji_jEr£siled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you...underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a... | |
| Frances Melville Perry - 1926 - 270 sider
...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." He holds out no Lethe of "busy work," service for others, by which to escape... | |
| Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 sider
...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 [436] crop of unextinguishable regrets. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest... | |
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