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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

~Joseph Conrad

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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

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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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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 3rd, 1857

Died: August 3rd, 1924

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