# Under Western Eyes

- Author: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes

## Quotes

> Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes/let-a-fool.md)

> Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

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> The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

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> Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

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> I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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> A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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> Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

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> The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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> Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

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> They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

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> A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

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