Heart of Darkness

"The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness"

"I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him"

"The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy"

"The wilderness had patted him on the head"

"I had become in my own eyes like the rest of them"

"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea"

"They howled and leaped and spun and made horrid faces"

"This is the most dangerous game of all"

"I have no time. There is no time!"

"There was an air of plotting about that station"

"Kurtz had enlarged my mind"

"The Company had the right to expect every man to do his duty"

"You fight, work, sweat, almost die, trying to accomplish something"

"The greatest good to the greatest number"

"I felt as though I was being left behind"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"He had come out here and had gone native"

"This is the reckoning of an exceptional man"

"You can't understand. How could you? —with solid pavement under your feet"

"Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it"

"The horror! The horror!"

"No, I don't want to change. I like things exactly as they are"

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

"There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies"

"I think it is the danger, the isolation, the immensity of that world"

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much"

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

"Exterminate all the brutes!"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"We live as we dream—alone"