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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
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It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
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Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
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A writing may be lost a lie may be written but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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