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Joseph Conrad. Notes on Life & Letters
Notes on Life & Letters
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AUTHOR’S NOTE
PART I—LETTERS
BOOKS—1905
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II
III
HENRY JAMES—AN APPRECIATION—1905
ALPHONSE DAUDET—1898
ANATOLE FRANCE—1904
I.—“CRAINQUEBILLE”
TURGENEV {2}—1917
STEPHEN CRANE—A NOTE WITHOUT DATES—1919
TALES OF THE SEA—1898
AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA {3}—1898
A HAPPY WANDERER—1910
THE LIFE BEYOND—1910
THE ASCENDING EFFORT—1910
THE CENSOR OF PLAYS—AN APPRECIATION—1907
PART II—LIFE
AUTOCRACY AND WAR—1905
THE CRIME OF PARTITION—1919
A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916
POLAND REVISITED—1915
I
II
III
IV
FIRST NEWS—1918
WELL DONE—1918
I
II
III
TRADITION—1918
CONFIDENCE—1919
I
II
III
FLIGHT—1917
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912
CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912
PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS {8}—1914
A FRIENDLY PLACE
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Joseph Conrad
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It is sweet to talk decorously of the dead who are part of our past, our indisputable possession. One must admit regretfully that to-day is but a scramble, that to-morrow may never come; it is only the precious yesterday that cannot be taken away from us. A gift from the dead, great and little, it makes life supportable, it almost makes one believe in a benevolent scheme of creation. And some kind of belief is very necessary. But the real knowledge of matters infinitely more profound than any conceivable scheme of creation is with the dead alone. That is why our talk about them should be as decorous as their silence. Their generosity and their discretion deserve nothing less at our hands; and they, who belong already to the unchangeable, would probably disdain to claim more than this from a mankind that changes its loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation.
