"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
— Joseph Conrad

January 1, 1970

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Letter to Robert Cunninghame-Graham (January 1898), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 30.