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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
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You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
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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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We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.
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Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.
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We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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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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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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