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Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Quotes: Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
         

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.


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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
         



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