“Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.”

—  Joseph Conrad , book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 8
Nostromo (1904)

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Polish-British writer 1857–1924

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