Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Freedom!" I protested. "I am a slave to my word. There will be a
siring of carts and mules on a certain part of the coast, and a
most ruffianly lot of men, men you understand, men with wives and
children and sweethearts, who from the very moment they start on a
trip risk a bullet in the head at any moment, but who have a
perfect conviction that I will never fail them. That's my freedom.
I wonder what they would think if they knew of your existence."