A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

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!

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

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