Joseph Conrad

An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

Heart of Darkness

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We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

We live in the flicker— may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

But both the diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul satiated with primitive emotions, avid of lying fame, of sham distinction, of all the appearances of success and power.

I went no more near the remarkable man who had pronounced a judgment upon the adventures of his soul on this earth. The voice was gone. What else had been there? 

My destiny! Droll thing life is— that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.

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