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The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
Joseph Conrad
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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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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
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There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
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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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I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.
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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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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
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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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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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Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
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