Heart of Darkness Quotes- Chapter 2

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Page 59: "They had been talking about Kurtz." (The Manager and his uncle). 

Page 60: "We will not be free from unfair competition till one of those fellows is hanged". 

Page 61: "treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart." 

"Long afterwards the news came that all the donkeys were dead. I knew nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals." (About the Eldorado Expedition) 

"Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world". 

Page 62: "Fine fellows- cannibals- in their place." 

"The word ivory would ring in the air for a while". 

Page 63: "We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness." 

"taking possession of an accursed inheritance"

"whirl of black limbs" 

"The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us- who could tell?" 

"we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled".

"We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there- there you could look at a thing monstrous and free." 

"the suspicion of their not being inhuman".

Page 64: "He…

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