| 1899 - 1284 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, — which is exactly what I hate... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pągines
...though a man of sixty — offer to fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a He. You know I hate,...because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies, — which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world — what I want... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies, — which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world — what I want... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because '*^._ . . , JPI****^ I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...mortality in lies — which is exactly what I hate 3,nd detest in the world — what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies — which is exactly what I hate... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pągines
...fight you. I would not have gone so far as to fight for Kurtz, but I went for him near enough to a lie. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it " tc* n .j. appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour _of ; \«V- i mortality in lies — which... | |
| Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pągines
...'flow ... of darkness' - that Marlow's special insistence on the virtue of honesty makes proper sense. 'You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not...straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me', he declares. 'There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly... | |
| Wilson Follett - 1915 - 136 pągines
...living. His ideal in human relationships is intimate sympathy based on intuition and openness of dealing: "there is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies." Yet the dark phases of character exert on him an irresistible fascination because they mean something... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pągines
...up, his career will suffer. Before relating this, however, Marlow had interjected to his listeners: "You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because 1 am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a... | |
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