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Joseph Conrad
“The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves”
joseph conrad, Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon

Robertson Davies
“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.”
Robertson Davies, The Manticore

Charles Dickens
“It's very soon done, sir, isn't it?' inquired Mr. Folair of the collector, leaning over the table to address him.
What is soon done, sir?' returned Mr. Lillyvick.
The tying up, the fixing oneself with a wife,' replied Mr. Folair. 'It don't take long, does it?'
No, sir,' replied Mr. Lillyvick, colouring. 'It does not take long. And what then, sir?'
Oh! nothing,' said the actor. 'It don't take a man long to hang himself, either, eh? Ha, ha!”
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens
“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

William Faulkner
“Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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