Polish - Novelist | December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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.
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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.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
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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.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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