Almayer’s Folly Quotes

“The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon.”
― Joseph Conrad, Almayer’s Folly

“while under the unsteady hand of the statesman of Sambir the Trovatore fitfully wept, wailed, and bade good-bye to his Leonore again and again in a mournful round of tearful and endless iteration.”
― Joseph Conrad, Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river

“Let her go. To-morrow I shall forget. I am a firm man, . . . firm as a . . . rock, . . . firm . . .”
― Joseph Conrad, Almayer’s Folly