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Schriftsteller, Kapitän der englischen Handelsflotte (England/Polen, 1857 - 1924).

Joseph Conrad · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Joseph Conrad wäre heute 165 Jahre, 5 Monate, 26 Tage oder 60.442 Tage alt.

Geboren am 03.12.1857 in Berditschew/Polen
Gestorben am 03.08.1924 in Bishopsbourne/England
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• A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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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 endeavour to do, he drowns . . .to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.

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

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

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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• All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

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• Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.

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• As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

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• Being a woman is a terrible difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men.

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• Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

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• Every 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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• Exterminate all the brutes!

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• He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more-the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort-to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires-and expires, too soon, too soon-before life itself.

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• In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

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• It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune - the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

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• It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

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• Mistah Kurtz-he dead.

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• My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more, and it is everything.

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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.

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