Joseph Conrad Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924
Birthday: December 3
Death: August 3
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!
source: Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)
topic: Struggle, Pride, Expression, Heart Of Darkness
