Heart of Darkness

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

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

"I've seen the birth of a world"

"Exterminate all the brutes!"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"We live as we dream—alone"

"The truth about Kurtz would have destroyed those who loved him."

"I returned changed, forever marked by what I had witnessed."

"His last breath carried the weight of all his knowledge."

"The jungle consumed all notions of morality."

"I was a seaman, but I became something else entirely."

"His words had the power of incantations."

"The Company had faith in him, but he had faith in himself alone."

"I could not judge him, though I understood his crimes."

"The silence of that place was deafening."

"In the depths, you discover your true nature."

"His reach exceeded his grasp, and it destroyed him."

"The taste of corruption is always bitter."

"Words fail me when I try to explain his influence."

"I have seen the face of madness."

"The river was like a snake, and we were its prey."

"I understood then what they yearned for."

"Kurtz had kicked the very earth to pieces."

"The violence shook me profoundly."

"I have nothing to say in the ordinary sense."

"He was hollow at the core."

"What saves us is efficiency—but what's efficiency that forgets its purpose?"

"I felt a strange sense of responsibility."

"The wilderness responded to him in some incomprehensible way."

"Kurtz wanted an audience, wanted worshippers."