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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

~Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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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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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 3rd, 1857

Died: August 3rd, 1924

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