Quote by Joseph Conrad
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but

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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