A Quote by Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. — © Joseph Conrad
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.
I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you.
Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
During weight cutting your mind plays tricks on you.
Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.
I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.
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