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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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.
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.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the t... (more Joseph Conrad quotes)
In 1894, at the age of thirty-six, Conrad decided to give up the sea and try to make a living as a writer.
He tried to kill himself in 1878, probably after a failed love affair.
After he was orphaned at the age of eleven, Conrad was adopted by his mother's brother, Tadeusz Bobrowski, who was a lawyer in Krakow. He lived with his uncle for six years.
Conrad's father, Count Apollo Nalecz Korzeniowski, was a hard-up aristocrat, a writer of patriotic tragedies and also a translator and poet. Afte... (more Joseph Conrad trivia)
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