In praise of what remains

In praise of what remains, one reads this book and is culturally enlightened by its sincerity and authenticity and is inspired spiritually by the warmth of its emotion in addition to all the literary information and penetrating insight in these articles. These qualities made it a book of friendship — between writer and another and between the writer and the reader: "By friendship, we mean this confrontation between one person and another which carries honesty and lack of reserve in ideas and feelings: this sincerity and obligatory sincerity in the deepest part of a person's life who tries to interact with emotional feelings in another being." We must thank Joseph Conrad for these sincere words which the reader will see embodied in the pages of this collection, time after time.