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Quotation from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future”

Joseph Conrad (spoken by Marlow)

Heart of Darkness, Part II (1902 Youth volume)

Portrait of Joseph Conrad

Marlow on the kinship he feels with the drumming and dancing on the riverbank.

Citation: "The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future" — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part II (1902 Youth volume). (id heart-of-darkness-q5)

Portrait: Joseph Conrad-remastered to black and white, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.

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