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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 unextinguishable regrets. "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Side 171
af Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 sider
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The Sewanee Review, Bind 35

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...
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Queen's Quarterly, Bind 34

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Bind 165

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...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

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,...
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Bind 5

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...
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The Sewanee Review, Bind 30

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...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

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...
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Complete Works, Bind 16

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...
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Story-writing: Lessons from the Masters

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...
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The Short Story: A Technical and Literary Study

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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