I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 97by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1903
...find yourself. Your The Spectator. own reality— for yourself, not for others—what no other man can know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means." That is profoundly true in the sense that a man's work always means far more to him than it can mean... | |
 | Scotland - 1899
...and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work, — the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised — on account of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pages
...find t/-' * yourself.^ Your own reality — for yourself, not for others I ' **• 1 — what,-jia other man can ever know. They can only see the mere...over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised • — on account... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 379 pages
...and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work, — the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised — on account of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 pages
...mere" "A sho^^ndjtte,yj£Ea5OtiQIwhat iFreaIIy~means. Twas not surprised to "see ~soTuelMMly"""Sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised — on account of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Abuse of administrative power - 1903 - 339 pages
...and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work — no man does— but I like what is in the work, — the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised — on account of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903
...They_can only see_the_mere gfiQ\V fl.Tlfl Tlf*Vf*F ffl.Tl tf*II 'Virhfl/f' l't' Vf*3.11V TTlfiflTl S "I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft,...over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 375 pages
...sake — "No man does," he says. His reasons are, rather, psychological and even metaphysical: "I like what is in the work, — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself" (85). It is as a part of this search for his own reality that Marlow's battle to repair the steamboat... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2004 - 208 pages
...and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself....over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised — on account of... | |
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