Quote by Joseph Conrad
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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teacher
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Vanity

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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