Life knows us not and we do not know life — -we don’t know … - Joseph Conrad

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Life knows us not and we do not know life — -we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

Joseph Conrad

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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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It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

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