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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.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Well
Thoughts
Dullness
Life
Perhaps
Dormant
Eyes
Shut
Half
Dull
Eye
Welcome
Makes
Ears
May
Extraordinary
Supportable
Wells
Majority
Incalculable

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