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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open- eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born British novelist. "A Familiar Preface," A Personal Record (1912).

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