# Quote — Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

> There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride — the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right.

- Author: [Malcolm Lowry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-lowry.md)
- Book: [Under the Volcano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-lowry/under-the-volcano.md)
- Page: 124
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-lowry/under-the-volcano/there-was-something

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