Heart of Darkness

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic"

"In the immensity of their yearning and their poverty"

"The mystery of a passion is greater than the mystery of death"

"The devotion to efficiency there was just like an enemy trying to escape"

"I struggled with a soul whose sanity was questionable"

"The voice of the plumb ignorance"

"I try to be kind—you know"

"My intended, my station, my—everything"

"The men—were very fine, very gentle, very human"

"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles"

"I have a mind to belong to the conquering race"

"He was hollow at the core"

"The smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils"

"I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the hexed words of that unique man"

"The horror! The horror!"

"It was not sleep—it was something stranger"

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

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"I felt as though, instead of going to the centre of a continent, I were about to set off for the centre of the earth"

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

"My Intended, my station, my career, my ideas"

"He talked of nothing but the needs of the Company"

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

"Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world"

"I see nothing! Nothing! Only a blank space down there on the map"

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features was an expression of remote vast patience"

"The inner truth is hidden—luckily"

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

"Exterminate all the brutes!"

"He had come out here and found the wilderness to be something entirely different"