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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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