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Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

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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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Shake
Places
Shakes
Hold
Wilderness
Stars
Fixed
Peal
Everything
Breath
Prodigious
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Breaths
Belonged
Would
Hearing
Burst
Laughter
Expectation

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