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I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
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