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Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857/12/03 – 1924/08/03) was a Polish born English novelist. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers, however, did not learn to speak English until in his twenties. Many of his tales are about sea and exotic places as he draws from his experiences in French and British Merchan Navy. He became a British citizen in 1886.

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

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

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 restles