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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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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Magic
Edification
Creative
Persuasive
Art
Enlightening
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Unseen
Surprising
Familiar
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Creativity
Evocation

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