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Going home must be like going to render an account.

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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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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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All one's work might have been better done but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.
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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
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