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Brief about Joseph Conrad: By info that we know Joseph Conrad was born at 1970-01-01. And also Joseph Conrad is Polish Novelist.

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

Tags: Indecent, Strength, Wine

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Tags: Blessed, Great, Rule

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Tags: Friendly, Human, Sea

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Tags: Away, Means, Pretty

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

Tags: Criticism, Flower, Personal

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Tags: Account, Home, Render

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

Tags: Earth, Good, Waiting

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Tags: Born, Dream, Sea

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.

Tags: Friends, Passion, Political

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

Tags: Actions, Open, Secret

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Tags: Life, Love, Men

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Tags: Modern, Sea, Ships

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

Tags: Art, Line, Work

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

Tags: Fine, Honor, Women

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Tags: Divine, Forget, Soul

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Tags: Ambition, Far, Possible

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

Tags: May, Nations, Paid

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Tags: Courage, Last, Woman

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

Tags: Enticing, Life, Sea

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Tags: Him, Human, Path
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