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Heart of Darkness
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  • Since then I've sometimes been overcome with a passion to return into that "heart of darkness" across the Mason-Dixon line, but then I remind myself that the true darkness lies within my own mind, and the idea loses itself in the gloom.†   (source)
  • In the heart of darkness, I have found illumination!†   (source)
  • Once, I badly miscalculated my jump to the throne, and instead of landing to the side of the diamond-shaped hole, on solid plank, I jumped clean into the heart of darkness.†   (source)
  • Daenerys Targaryen stepped into the hot heart of darkness and stopped at the lip of a deep pit.†   (source)
  • This is the heart of darkness right here.†   (source)
  • He felt them move, every movement causing a trembling, an astonishment, a horror in the heart of darkness where he lay.†   (source)
  • Dark of Heartness tiptoed into the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • Further inland, and still across, a five-star hotel chain had bought the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • In Ayemenem they danced to jettison their humiliation in the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • He was walking swiftly now, towards the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • The house on the other side of the rivet Looming in the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that evening had been a particularly bad one in the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • July 17: Started reading Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • With no way to service a utility stretching across the heart of darkness, the engineers watched the monster's tail crumble as fast as the front was erected.†   (source)
  • On their way back from the Heart of Darkness, they stopped at the temple to ask pardon of their gods.†   (source)
  • In the Heart of Darkness they mock him with their lolling nakedness and their imported attention spans.†   (source)
  • Margaret Kochamma (because she knew that when you travel to the Heart of Darkness [b] Anything can Happen to Anyone) called her in to have her regimen of pills.†   (source)
  • Unlike the custom of rampaging religious mobs or conquering armies running riot, that morning in the Heart of Darkness the posse of Touchable Policemen acted with economy, not frenzy.†   (source)
  • The old colonial bungalow with its deep verandah and Doric columns, was surrounded by smaller, older, wooden houses—ancestral homes—that the hotel chain had bought from old families and transplanted in the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • The one in which a posse of Touchable Policemen crossed the Meenachal River, sluggish and swollen with recent rain, and picked their way through the wet undergrowth, clumping into the Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • Take everything, her colleagues had advised Margaret Kochamma in concerned voices, you never know, which was their way of saying to a colleague traveling to the Heart of Darkness that: (a) Anything Can Happen To Anyone.†   (source)
  • They did about two years on their tour of duty in the heart of darkness, living in the pool houses and basement apartments of the well-off people on the East Side, and then moved on to the bigger but not always better newspapers.†   (source)
  • I stared back at them, and felt as Marlowe had, searching the shoreline for Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.†   (source)
  • He came out of the heart of darkness, from the dark heart of the secret and undiscovered South.†   (source)
  • Down into darkness, darkness that tunneled the heart of darkness, darkness fathomless.†   (source)
  • We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.†   (source)
  • HEART OF DARKNESS By Joseph Conrad I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.†   (source)
  • "The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.†   (source)
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