“ All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. ”
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907). copy citation
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
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| Source | The Secret Agent |
| Topic | complexity life |
| Date | 1907 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/974/974-h/974-h.htm |
Context
“, that romance came to an abrupt end, and Winnie went about looking very dull. But Mr Verloc, turning up providentially to occupy the first-floor front bedroom, there had been no more question of the young butcher. It was clearly providential.
CHAPTER III
“ . . . All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events.”
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