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Joseph Conrad

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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.


— Joseph Conrad


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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.


— Joseph Conrad


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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.


— Joseph Conrad


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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.


— Joseph Conrad


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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.


— Joseph Conrad


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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.


— Joseph Conrad


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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.


— Joseph Conrad


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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.


— Joseph Conrad


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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.


— Joseph Conrad


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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.


— Joseph Conrad


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After many travails and vicissitudes at the beginning of November 1914 Conrad managed to bring his family back to England.

Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lawrence F.

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