Marlow

"I would have served him faithfully"

"The greatest thing one can know is oneself"

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer"

"We live as we dream—alone."

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

"Mind, none of us would like to be told how we look now."

"I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a guide, helper, promoter, a shade of something."

"Sometimes I ask myself whether the change is for the better."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."

"He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls into an aggravated witch-dance."

"I tried to break the spell—the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness."

"To speak plainly, he was mad."

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness."

"The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself."

"I became aware of the devoted attention with which he listened."

"They had come out there to get a lot of ivory, and not to learn anything."

"The wilderness had patted him on the head."

"He was very little more than a voice."

"Everything else was false, deceptive, thin like a soap bubble."

"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine."

"You can't understand. How could you?"

"This initiation, or whatever you would like to call it, had its charm."

"I have no clear picture of it now."

"The same mysterious machinery of aggressive conquest."

"An appeal to something high in his nature."

"The very essence of his long exile among these people."

"I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time."

"It was as simple as that—and terrible."

"By heavens! it is incredible."

"The women is out of it—completely."