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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.
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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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He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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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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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Joseph Conrad
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.
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