# Heart of Darkness [With Biographical Introduction]  ## Metadata - Author: [[Joseph Conrad]] - Full Title: Heart of Darkness [With Biographical Introduction] - Category: #books ## Highlights - ‘Why! he’s mad,’ I said. He protested indignantly. Mr. Kurtz couldn’t be mad. ([Location 1203](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1203)) - I suppose it did not occur to him Mr. Kurtz was no idol of mine. He forgot I hadn’t heard any of these splendid monologues on, what was it? on love, justice, conduct of life—or what not. ([Location 1239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1239)) - This shadow looked satiated and calm, as though for the moment it had had its fill of all the emotions. ([Location 1275](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1275)) - Tags: [[imaginative scenes]] - “Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest, and near the river two bronze figures, leaning on tall spears, stood in the sunlight under fantastic headdresses of spotted skins, warlike and still in statuesque repose. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. ([Location 1281](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1281)) - Tags: [[imaginative scenes]] - Note: Illustrate👆 - Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets. ([Location 1482](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1482)) - ‘The horror!’ He was a remarkable man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candor, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth—the strange commingling of desire and hate. ([Location 1491](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1491)) - perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible. ([Location 1495](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1495)) - This visitor informed me Kurtz’s proper sphere ought to have been politics ‘on the popular side.’ ([Location 1529](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1529)) - He could get himself to believe anything—anything. He would have been a splendid leader of an extreme party.’ ‘What party?’ I asked. ‘Any party,’ answered the other. ‘He was an—an—extremist.’ ([Location 1532](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FC1C50&location=1532))