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The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

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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
Artist
Death
Must
Much
Interpreter
Like
Creates
Calling
Silence
Voice

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