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The most practical present when your family is just above the bread line.
The most practical present when your family is just above the bread line.
141. Pretence.
September the 24th, 2007
“I found myself back in the sepulchural city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.”— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Written by Desi Quintans, © 2008,
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