All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.
Joseph ConradHe has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.
Joseph ConradThe man who can't do most things and won't do the rest
Joseph ConradIn the tropics one must before
everything keep calm.' . . .
Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun...In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .
Joseph ConradIt echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
Joseph ConradSociety was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.
Joseph ConradIt was another of Nostromo's triumphs, the greatest, the most enviable, the most sinister of all. In that true cry of undying passion that seemed to ring aloud from Punta Mala to Azuera and away to the bright line of the horizon, overhung by a big white cloud shining like a mass of solid silver, the genius of the magnificent Capataz de Cargadores dominated the dark gulf containing his conquests of treasure and love.
Joseph ConradThe terrosirt and the policeman both come form the same basket. Revolution, legality - countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
Joseph ConradWhat saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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