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“The horror, the horror!”
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“We live as we dream—alone.”
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“The darkness of the jungle had entered into my soul.”
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“I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.”
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“Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world.”
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“All a man likes to feel is that he has been missed.”
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“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.”
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“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own.”
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“We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”
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“It seemed to me I had never breathed an atmosphere so vile, and I turned mentally to Kurtz for relief—positively for relief.”
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“To the young and ardent imagination of the boy these arguments savoured of injustice.”
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“There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world.”
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“You should have seen the look on his face when the torch went out.”
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“The endless reproaches of the wilderness, the craving for decency, the hunger for greatness to serve and the irresistible necessity of crime.”
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“I had to deal with them, of course. I’ve made no mistakes. I would be a clever fellow if I could deceive myself.” QUOTE ABOUT FRIENDS MEASURE
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“When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality—the reality, I tell you—fades. The inner truth is hidden—luckily, luckily.”
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“One gets sometimes such a flash of inspiration, you know.”
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“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.”
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“Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched.”
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“I took it up eagerly; and but for an accident—the fact that Wickham, the chief of the station, was killed accidentally in a scuffle with the natives—I would have never propagated to him.”
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“The mystery of a ship under sail exercising the enchantment of distance.”
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“Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out.”
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“The old doctor felt my pulse, evidently thinking of something else the while.”
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“It was as unreal as everything else—as the philanthropic pretense of the whole concern, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work.”
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“It has been a colossal and inhuman phenomenon, though not entirely devoid of human interest.”
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“Brickmaker is such a good fellow, too!”
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“It was written twenty years ago. The volume was of the same size and shape as the papers in his desk, and it had something to do with Africa.”
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“It is queer how we are made.”
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“And this also, has been one of the dark places of the earth.”