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“We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the August light of abiding memories.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness