The Lagoon Quotes

“A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!”
― Joseph Conrad, The Lagoon

“They believed their words. Everybody shows a respectful deference to certain sounds that he and his fellows can make. But about feelings people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what suffering or sacrifice mean- except, perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Lagoon