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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: that such a life should be sacrificed to leave nothing--but sorrow.
You know what vast plans he had. I knew of them, too--I could not
perhaps understand--but others knew of them. Something must remain.
His words, at least, have not died.'
"`His words will remain,' I said.
"`And his example,' she whispered to herself. `Men looked up to him--
his goodness shone in every act. His example--'
"`True,' I said; `his example, too. Yes, his example.
I forgot that.'
"But I do not. I cannot--I cannot believe--not yet.
I cannot believe that I shall never see him again, that nobody
Heart of Darkness | 
