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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Joseph Conrad

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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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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 condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.
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We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
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A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
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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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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
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