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Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, Ukraine in 1857.
* He was of Polish descent and grew up speaking Polish, French, and English.
* He joined the British merchant navy at the age of 16 and sailed for 17 years.
* He began writing fiction in his early 30s and published his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895.
* He went on to write 14 more novels, including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo.
* He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924.
* He died in Bishopsbourne, England, in 1924.
* He is considered one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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