In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoili… - Joseph Conrad

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

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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O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there — there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom. - Joseph Conrad

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