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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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