Joseph Conrad: Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a

Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked ter — Joseph Conrad

Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

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