Heart of Darkness

"There is a wisdom in this world which is not of books"

"I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a suspiciously gifted creature"

"The wilderness had patted him on the head"

"A voice! It was genuine, it was profound"

"I could not tell what I wanted to be"

"Do you see him? Do you see the sort of man?"

"The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing"

"He was like a vapor exhaled from the earth"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"I've seen the birth of a world"

"The horror! The horror!"

"We live as we dream—alone"

"An appeal to something in man that is not kept in check by law"

"His ascendancy was extraordinary"

"The horror! The horror!"

"Exterminate all the brutes"

"I am trying to be perfectly frank with you"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"He had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"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"

"We live as we dream—alone"

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before"

"One doesn't like to be made a fool of"

"I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it is Mr. Kurtz who had betrayed me"

"The wilderness had patted him on the head, and behold it was like a ball—an ivory ball"

"Kurtz was hollow at the core"

"I find myself regarding the success of this affair with an indifference that almost amounts to insanity"

"He was a magnificent creature of the wilderness, an ivory god"

"This station should be something like a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade, of course, but also for humanizing, instructing"