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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
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Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
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Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
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The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
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Youth is insolent it is its right - its necessity it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
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