The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, so… - Joseph Conrad

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The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage — who can tell? — but
truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time.

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About Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish writer, working in England, regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Alternative Names: Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski • Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski
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H. G. Wells John Steinbeck William Faulkner Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville

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And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Heart of Darkness · October 1, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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