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Heart of Darkness: Important Textual Quotations



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  • And the river was there – fascinating – deadly – like a snake.
  • In the outer room the two women knitted black wool, feverishly.
  • Knitting black wool as for a warm pall.
  • 'The old doctor felt my pulse, evidently thinking of something else the while. "Good, good for there," he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head.
  • A lot of people, mostly black and naked, moved about like ants.
  • Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path.
  • I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
  • 'They were dying slowly – it was very clear.' They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.
  • I saw a high starched collar, white duffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clear necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand .he was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear.
  • He was just a word for me.
  • We live, as we dream – alone.
  • "Universal genius", but even a genius would find it easier to work with "adequate tools – intelligent men".
  • "Who? I? Oh! Like a charm – like a charm.
  • 'Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world.
  • The earth seemed unearthly.
  • - him – it--
  • "My Intended."
  • This was because it could speak English to me. The original Kurtz had been educated partly in England … His mother was half-English, his father was half-French. All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; … the International Society for the Suppression of Savage.
  • "Exterminate all the brutes!"
  • I am not so young as I look. I am twenty-five.
  • Russian?
  • His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering.
  • I saw him open his mouth wide – it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
  • "The horror! The horror!"
  • "He was a remarkable man".
  • "He died as he lived."
  • "The last word he pronounced was – your name."
  • A meditating Buddha.
  • Power corrupts man and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  • Where there is no check on a man, the worst of him may come out.
  • In the business of exploration, both exploiter and exploited are corrupted.

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