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| He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |  |
| "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 too much." | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| "We live, as we dream--alone. . . ." | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| I don't like work--no man does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself. | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| "'The horror! The horror!" | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
| The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | |
