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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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 discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
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