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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
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Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out.
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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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And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.
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In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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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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Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
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The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.
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It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.
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