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Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.
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There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.
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Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
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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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I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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