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| 70d83a9 | For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited | joseph-conrad duality writing-craft | Virginia Woolf | |
| 65e4902 | They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything! | joseph-conrad lord-jim modernist modernism | Joseph Conrad |