By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“Even in my own eyes I was merely a symbol…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They began singing ‘All through the night’ to steady themselves.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“It’s a bad business being at the end of a period of civilization.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“That is the act of a great man.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“We can’t afford to give up the Good.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

She was something that one could not look at for glow.

By: Naomi Mitchison

“The numbers were put into a very beautiful silver jar…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They had each drawn their number after the soup…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“Of course, it’s not your sort of work…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“I was thinking of the Haves all over the world…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“I’m not a — not a Dimensionist.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“One gets pretty sick of the representation idea…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“The curious brutalities we seem to like now in our amusements…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

I was really leaving an old course of life…

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“They’re a bit splitty, the Ministry, I mean.…”