For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
-- Joseph Conrad
   
Joseph Conrad   Name:
Joseph Conrad
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
Polish
Birth:
December 3, 1857
Death:
August 3, 1924
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