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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. - Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad: "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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad."

Joseph Conrad's Quotations

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Bear	Conjunction	Conventional	Events
Fatal	Going	Hugs	Human
Illusion	Instant	Knows	Lift
Loneliness	Lonely	Mask	Memory
Miserable	Moral	Most	Naked
Outcast	Solitude	Steady	Terror
Themselves	True	Veil	View
Wears	Without	Word

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