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Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

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
Throwing
English
Wall
Writing
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Mud

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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
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