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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Quotes: In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
         

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.


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He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.



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