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“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
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“I did not betray Mr. Kurtz--it was ordered I should never betray him--it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone,--and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with anyone the peculiar blackness of that experience.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.”
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:
The horror! The horror!”
― Heart of Darkness
The horror! The horror!”
― Heart of Darkness
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