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Joseph Conrad
Polish
Novelist
Born:
Dec 3
,
1857
Died:
Aug 3
,
1924
Every
Life
Love
Man
Men
You
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad
Woman
Women
Men
Difficult
Consists
Since
Principally
Terribly
Dealing
Task
Being
Difficult Task
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
Alone
Evil
Men
Every
Supernatural
Source
Quite
Capable
Belief
Wickedness
Necessary
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Love
Hope
Man
Heart
Trust
Young
Put
Learned
Woe
While
To Love
Whose
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
Alone
Loneliness
Memory
Word
Illusion
Lonely
Miserable
Mask
Naked
Outcast
Wears
Some
True
Most
Knows
Terror
HUGS
Conventional
Themselves
Who
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad
Face
Way
Facing
Through
Always
Get
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad
Enemy
Thought
Action
Friend
Flattering
Illusions
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
Gossip
Everybody
Claims
No-One
Like
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad
Others
Our
Carried
Ourselves
Must
Deliberately
Allow
Bounds
Beyond
Normal
Move
Order
Sensibility
Away
Deeply
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Nothing
Enticing
More
Than
Sea
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
Great
World
Fog
Blessed
Rule
Accomplished
Achievements
Warm
Who
Great Achievements
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.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Faith
Strength
Nature
Man
Together
Grass
Earth
Draws
Blade
He
Spot
His
Whence
Which
Land
Rooted
Each
Going home must be like going to render an account.
Joseph Conrad
Home
Must
Like
Render
Account
Going
Going Home
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?
Joseph Conrad
You
Heart
Fear
Throat
Through
Take
Head
Does
How
Off
Wonder
Shoot
Slash
Specter
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
Work
Art
Every
Carry
However
Line
Condition
Any
Justification
Should
Humbly
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
Good
Waiting
People
Fate
Earth
Born
Curiously
Them
Many
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad
You
Soul
Russian
Divine
Forget
Resignation
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