“And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth

struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.” –

Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness

“I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.” –Joseph Conrad, Heart

of Darkness

“I was, so to speak, numbered with the dead. It is strange how I accepted this unforeseen partnership, this choice of nightmares forced upon me in the tenebrous land invaded by these mean and greedy phantoms.”—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness