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“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
― The Quest for Cosmic Justice
― The Quest for Cosmic Justice
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Under Western Eyes
― Under Western Eyes
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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