It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays (ed. e-artnow, 2015) - ISBN: 9788026846390