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…You can`t understand.How could you?_with solid pavement under your feet,surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall  on you,stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman,in the holly terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums_ how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man`s untrammeled feet may take him into by the way of solitude_utter solitude without a policeman_ by the way of silence _ utter silence,where no warning voice of a kind neighbor can be heard whispering of public opinion?These little things make all the great difference.When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength,upon your own capacity for faithfulness.Of course you may be too much of a fool to go wrong_too dull even to know you are being assaulted by the powers of darkness.I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul whit the devil:the fool is too much of a fool,or the devil too much of a devil_ I don`t know which.Or you may such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds.Then the earth for you is only a standing place_and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won`t pretend to say.But most of us are neither one nor the other.The earth for us is a place to live in,where we must put up with sights,with sounds,with smells,too,by love!

 

(Heart of darkness and other tales_Conrad,Joseph)

 

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