# Quote — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

> It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

- Author: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md)
- Book: [Lord Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/it-is-when

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> I respected the intense, almost passionate, absorption with which he looked at a butterfly, as though on the bronze sheen of these frail wings, in the white tracings, in the gorgeous markings, he could see other things, an image of something as perishable and defying destruction as these delicate and lifeless tissues displaying a splendour unmarred by death.

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> For it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

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> The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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