You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
Joseph ConradA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph ConradI was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
Joseph ConradThe sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
Joseph ConradIn some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.
Joseph Conrad