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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

~Joseph Conrad

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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

~Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

~Joseph Conrad

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

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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.

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

~Joseph Conrad

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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.

~Joseph Conrad

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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

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

~Joseph Conrad

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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

~Joseph Conrad

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 3rd, 1857

Died: August 3rd, 1924

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