The Horror! The Horror!

From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Kurtz's famous dying utterance, which Marlow interprets as a moment of moral victory and total judgment on his life and on the colonial enterprise.
Part 3
Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: "The horror! The horror!"
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