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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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 conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.
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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
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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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You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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