I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books.
("Moby-Dick")
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. . . however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.
Herman Melville
How it is I know not but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.
Herman Melville
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
Herman Melville
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
Herman Melville
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