Lord Jim Quotes

“Going home must be like going to render an account.”

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

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“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”

“Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!”

“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.”

“The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.”

“This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still.”

“For it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”

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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”

“I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.”

“That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.”

“She said we lied. Poor soul! Well — let's leave it to Chance, whose ally is Time, that cannot be hurried, and whose enemy is Death, that will not wait.”

“There is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far — very far — deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns.”

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”

“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”