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Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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