He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you.
Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Ell per mi era només un nóm. El veieu? Veieu la història? Veieu alguna cosa? Em sembla com si us intentés explicar un somni, i és en va, perquè cap narració d'un somni no ens pot transmetre la sensaci...
And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.
A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
The men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.
You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.
It is a great doctor for sore hearts and sore heads, too, your ship’s routine, which I have seen soothe—at least for a time—the most turbulent of spirits. There is health in it, and peace, and satisfa...
His last word—to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I loved him—I loved him—I loved him!'I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.'The last word he pronounced was—your name.'I heard a li...
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.
Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information un...
Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrabl...
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as...
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. Thatwas the reflection that made you creepy all ove...
And Mr Verloc, temparamentally identical with his associates, drew fine distinctions in his mind on the strenght of insignificant differences. He drew them with a certain complacency, because the inst...