Officially BLOWN away....

Ok, this is going to sound a little weird. I've just started a book and I think this is quite possibly the BEST single sentence I've ever read. Check THIS out:

"There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention - that indefinable something which forces upon the mind and heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he had seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary - the sunshine, the memories, the future - which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life."

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page 7.