There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
-- Joseph Conrad
   
Joseph Conrad   Name:
Joseph Conrad
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
Polish
Birth:
December 3, 1857
Death:
August 3, 1924
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