Joseph Conrad Quotes about Moon

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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Joseph Conrad

Halloween, Moon, Night

Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

Joseph Conrad

Wall, Moon, Men

Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company