And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

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