We live, as we dream—alone.

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

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Topic

Solitude The human condition

Speaker

Captain Marlow

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

Heart of Darkness

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Ukraine Europe

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Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Blackwood's Magazine, Feb. 1899 - April 1899.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales. Edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

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My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

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Author

Joseph Conrad
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Dover Publications, 2016, preface.

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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.

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Author

Albert Camus
Source
The Sea Close By
Medium
Essay
Language
French
Time
1953 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Camus, Albert. "L'Eté." Librairie Gallimard, 1950.

Current Citation

Camus, Albert. "Summer: The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage, 1970.