How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Woe to the stragglers! We exist only in so far as we hang together. He had straggled in a way; he had not hung on [...]" (21.6)
There are different kinds of exile in the book, and here Marlow emphasizes how Jim is exiled from the "group" or community, which is probably the most painful kind of exile. He simply doesn't belong anymore.
Quote #8
"I can't with mere words convey to you the impression of his total and utter isolation." (27.7)
Jim's isolation is a concept we have some trouble grasping, given that he's always surrounded by other people (Marlow, Stein, the folks on Patusan, etc.). Jim's true isolation feels more like alienation – from his community, from himself, and from his former livelihood as a sailor.
Quote #9
"But do you notice how, three hundred miles beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines, the haggard utilitarian lies of our civilization wither and die, to be replaced by pure exercises of imagination, that have the futility, the charm, and sometimes the deep hidden truthfulness, of works of art?" (29.1)
There is a sense for Jim on Patusan that if he can't make it here, he can't make it anywhere. He's practically on the edge of the world, living in exile from civilization on an island that is exiled from the world, too. If he can't escape his past here, well, then we think he never will.