But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Joseph ConradThere is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Joseph ConradThe conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad