Heart of Darkness

"The horror has a face, and it is beautiful."

"I fought with myself too—you don't know how much I fought."

"In the immense distance, no living thing was visible."

"Civilization is but a thin veneer."

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

"I saw him open his mouth wide—it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect."

"They were nothing but hollow phantoms."

"Believe me or not, his talk was like a charm."

"The company trades in ivory, but really in power."

"I have become what I am through will alone."

"You will help me, won't you?"

"His station had been a success too."

"We were cut off from everything we had known."

"The earth seemed unearthly."

"I have lived in the darkness, and seen things you cannot imagine."

"The very essence of plans is to make a clean job of it."

"There was something wanting in him—some small matter."

"I tried to break the spell that held me down."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow."

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

"His was an impenetrable darkness."

"I have wrestled with death."

"The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water."

"One can't depend on anybody here."

"He was hollow at the core."

"The wilderness seemed to draw him in the bosom."

"I would fight for you."

"The man had emerged from the wreck—emerged greatly in his unprincipled craving."

"He had the power to charm or frighten rudimentary souls."