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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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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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For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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