Let me look into a human eye it is better than to gaze into sea or sky better than to gaze upon God.
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God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever that vulture the very creature he creates.Herman Melville
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy All noble things are touched with that.
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
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