To the destruction of what is.
The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.
Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.
The man who can’t do most things and won’t do the rest.
The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
I can’t afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.
To cut oneself entirely from one’s kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.
It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.
I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one’s life for the cause is nothing. But to have one’s illusions destroyed – that is really almost more than one can bear.
The value of a sentence is the personality that utters’t, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman.
Mistah Kurtz – he dead.
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
I remembered the old doctor, – “It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.” I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild – and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness.
La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.
One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.