Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad

Sailed twenty years before I wrote a word in English. The sea is not a metaphor. It is the first true teacher of character.

Joseph Conrad

·1906·Kent, England

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures have professed to feel for it, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Chapter XXXV