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A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

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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
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Warehouse
Sadness
Meditating
Wall
Restraint
Freedom
Surrounded
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Prisoner
Free
Ship
Warehouses
Spirit
Walls
Dock
Ships
Docks

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