“ The more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity. ”
Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911). copy citation
Author | Joseph Conrad |
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Source | Under Western Eyes |
Topic | absurdity |
Date | 1911 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2480/2480-h/2480-h.htm |
Context
“But no! I am wrong! I can’t afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications. How is one to guard against it? It puts to rout one’s intelligence. The more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity.”
A wave of wrath choked his thoughts for a moment. It even made his body leaning over the parapet quiver; then he resumed his silent thinking, like a secret dialogue with himself. And even in that privacy, his thought had some reservations of which he was vaguely conscious.”
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