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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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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
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The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
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