Polish - Novelist | December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad
BackSameCoinMayPaidThem
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?
FearHeartYouWonderHeadShoot
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
CommunicationTimeSpaceFlyingGo
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
MenPeaceTakeOnlySomeForm
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
SeaModernHighwayMakeShipsMuch
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
SoulYouForgetResignationDivine
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