They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. - Joseph Conrad

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They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

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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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There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.
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