It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....
Source: Heart of Darkness (1899)
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It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....
You can control nothing but your own mind.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.
They were barbarians and wreckers.
The plain intention of an honest man.
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.
The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat.
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
I have no fear, no matter how fast you go.
Say yes or no without fear.
I wish you to be attired as befits your rank and beauty.
I can really only thank you for your too flattering letter, inspired by our old friendship.
I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.
In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.
This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come; for at any rate this great evil has come, that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby.
But I cannot help doing this great wrong toward Man, that I make myself credulous.
No, indeed, cried the mouse with the cropped ears; the credit is mine.
No, it is mine, cried the lame one, for I ran off with the ring.