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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
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
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The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.
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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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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
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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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