Mr. Kurtz Quotes

“I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

“But both the diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul”

“You show them you have in you something that is really profitable, and then there will be no limits to the recognition of your ability,”

“I said with something like despair in my heart, but bowing my head before the faith that was in her, before that great and saving illusion that shone with an unearthly glow in the darkness, in the triumphant darkness from which I could not have defended her—from which I could not even defend myself.”

″‘His end,’ said I, with dull anger stirring in me, ‘was in every way worthy of his life.‘”

″‘The last word he pronounced was—your name.‘”