| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 13212 |
| QUOTATION: | A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born British novelist. Marlow, in Youth (1902).
Of the East, Conrad wrote, “I have seen its secret places and have looked into its very soul.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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