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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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Flying
Destruction
Deals
Word
Space
Time
Bullets

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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
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The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.
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The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
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There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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