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I think the knowledge came to him at last - only at the very last. But
the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a
terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had
whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of
which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great
solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It
echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
.
Conrad, Joseph. *Heart of Darkness*. London: Penguin, 2000, p. 95.
aren't really anything alike, but both Kurtz and the Joker are terrible
people, and in that sense they are the same.
This passage sums up the whole book, for me, and I think about it.