Heart of Darkness

"I had my revolver ready in my pocket"

"He could talk and once enthralled all listeners"

"Words have a power that escapes us"

"I saw the time approaching when I would have to give up my command"

"The knitting old woman seemed to know all about everybody"

"The reaches opened before us and closed behind as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way"

"I have become what I am because I understood nothing"

"In the distance, a roll of drums"

"The jungle was watching us"

"He had devoted himself to it with the fury of a man driven by demons"

"I felt like a passenger among merchants"

"The smell of mud, of primeval mud"

"The man filled the whole of my vision"

"A voice! A voice! He was very little more than a voice"

"He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land"

"They were not enemies; they were brothers"

"The horror! The horror!"

"I could not stay. It was impossible"

"Incomprehensible words were shouted out"

"The inner station was in the heart of darkness"

"He wanted no more than justice"

"I think the knowledge of what one does not know is the beginning of wisdom"

"Kurtz was a remarkable man. All Europe is interested in him"

"The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish"

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

"He had come out equipped with moral ideas"

"The wilderness had patted him on the head"

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

"I felt as though I was being carried out of my depth"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"