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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
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