Reality, dreams, and truth

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Character

Chapter

“...to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable... it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.”

Marlow

1

“To him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos”

Marlow

1

“one of Marlow’s inconclusive experiences.”

Narrator

1

“You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie.”

Marlow

1

“It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything...n ot very clear. And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light.”

Marlow

1

“There was something ominous in the atmosphere”

Marlow

1

“I felt as though, instead of going to the centre of a continent, I were about to set off for the centre of the earth.”

Marlow

1

“The uniform sombreness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of things, within the toils of a mournful and senseless delusion.”

Marlow

1

“A boat from the shore gave one a momentary contact with reality.”

Marlow

1

“For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long.”

Marlow

1

“It seems to be I am trying to tell you a dream”

Marlow

1

“No relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt”

Marlow

1

“That notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams”

Marlow

1

“It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence – that which makes its truth, its meaning – its subtle and penetrating essence.”

Marlow

1

“We live, as we dream – alone”

Marlow

1

“There were moments when one’s past came back to one... but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream”

Marlow