Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad


After we had gone a little way I couldn't help saying to him with a
bashful laugh: "You know, it seems very extraordinary that I
should be driving out with you like this."


He turned to look at me and in his kind voice:


"You will find everything extremely simple," he said. "So simple
that you will be quite able to hold your own. I suppose you know
that the world is selfish, I mean the majority of the people in it,
often unconsciously I must admit, and especially people with a
mission, with a fixed idea, with some fantastic object in view, or
even with only some fantastic illusion. That doesn't mean that
they have no scruples. And I don't know that at this moment I
myself am not one of them."

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