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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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
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She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
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I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
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They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
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Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
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