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Quote by Joseph Conrad
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by 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. – Joseph Conrad

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alone
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Joseph Conrad
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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Weather
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Joseph Conrad
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Other Quotes from
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

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Truth

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn

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Truth

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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Truth

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Truth

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A childs fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. – Julien Green

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I never wanted to become an actress because Id read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. – Julie Walters

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Love me and the world is mine. – David Reed

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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our childrens? – King Abdullah II

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