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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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Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
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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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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
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All one's work might have been better done but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
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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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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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Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
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The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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A writing may be lost a lie may be written but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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