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 All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
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Interesting quote! Does idealization make the life poorer? It doesn't seem so when we're in love. Less complex? True, complexity comes later when we learn about the humanity in all of us.
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All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
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Context from:The Secret Agent
CHAPTER III
“ . . . All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production—by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by the capitalism for the protection of property are responsible for anarchism. No one can tell what form the social organisation may take in the future. Then why indulge in prophetic phantasies? At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. Leave that pastime to the moralists, my boy.”
Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle, was speaking in an even voice, a voice that wheezed as if deadened and oppressed by the layer of fat on his chest. He had come out of a highly hygienic prison round like a tub, with an enormous stomach and distended cheeks of a pale, semi-transparent complexion, as though for fifteen years the servants of an outraged society had made a point of stuffing him with fattening foods in a damp and lightless cellar. And ever since he had never managed to get his weight down as much as an ounce.
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Daemon wrote:All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Yeah. Does it mean that all denigration make life richer?
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I remember that one of my professors at the Univ. of Houston, Dr. Friedberg (R.I.P.) enjoyed reading his books...
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