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We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

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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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