# Quote — Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

> The truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

- Author: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md)
- Book: [Nostromo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/nostromo.md)
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> Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

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> A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

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> There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.

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