Notes from Conrad's Nostromo

Penguin edition edited by Martin Seymour-Smith (1983, 10th printing)
lines, phrases I loved-

"He had found no need to drop his voice; it had been low all the time, a mere murmur in the silence of dark houses with their shutters closed early against the night air, as is the custom of Sulaco"(178).

Decoud: "I have only the supreme illusion of a love"(179).

Decoud about Nostromo: "He is a fortunate fellow! His work is an exercise of personal powers; his leisure is spent in receiving the marks of extraordinary adulation"(181).

"It seemed to him [Decoud] that every conviction, as soon as it became effective, turned into that form of dementia the gods send upon those they wish to destroy"(188).

"It was part of what Decoud would have called his sane materialism that he did not believe in the possibility of friendship between man and woman.

The one exception he allowed confirmed, he maintained, that absolute rule. Friendship was possible between brother and sister,  meaning by friendship the frank unreserved, as before another human being, of thoughts and sensations; all the objectless and necessary sincerity of one's innermost life tryint to react upon the profound sympathies of another existence"(205).