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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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Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
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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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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.
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A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
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All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .
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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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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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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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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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