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wm 'shd m ysmw bkhyln `n lwHsh lqwy dhy lnfth lDbby 'n nrh ysbH fy jll khll hd'@ lbHr lstwy'y@, wqd tZll r'sh ljrym llTyf bZlW@ mn bkhr wlWdth 'fkrh lty l ymknh blGh lGyrh, w'n dhlk lbkhr yur~ 'Hyn wqd wshHh qws qzH, Ht~ k'n lsm nfsh 'mWnt `l~ 'fkrh wwqW`t blqbwl. wl`lk t`lm 'n qws qzH l yulm blfD lSfy wnm yb`th l'lq fy lbkhr, wkdhlk dh tkthf Dbb lshkwk lqtm@ fy `qly tkhllth 'nwr lHds llhy@ mnwWir@ dhlk lDbb bsh`` smwy. shkr llh `l~ hdh l'n..
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Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
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Herman Melville |
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Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.
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The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up--flaked up, with rose-water snow.
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sherbet
tropics
sailing
sea
summer
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Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.
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god
savagery
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Herman Melville |
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For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.
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And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor- as you will sometimes see it- glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts. For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, throug..
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The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it. At times there are gestures in it, which, though they would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly inexplicable. In an extensive herd, so remarkable, occasionally, are these mystic gestures, that I have heard hunters who have declared them akin to Free-Mason signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these methods intelligently conversed with the w..
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Herman Melville |
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He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
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Herman Melville |
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If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man's experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it.
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Herman Melville |
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Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.
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Herman Melville |
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
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Herman Melville |
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Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to." --
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Herman Melville |
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But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.
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Herman Melville |
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So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
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Herman Melville |
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It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
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racism
race
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Herman Melville |
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What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?
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obsessed
obsession
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Herman Melville |
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Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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struggle
life
truth
soul
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Herman Melville |
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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
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nature
sunset
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Herman Melville |
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His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.
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Herman Melville |
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I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
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Herman Melville |
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Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
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Herman Melville |
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Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
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strength
resilience
manhood
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t'ml klyhm, '`ny lbHr wlbr, 'l tr~ fyhm shbh Gryb lshy mstqr fy nfsk? dh mthlm 'n hdh lmHyT lmhwl yHf bhdh lbr l'khDr, kdhlk fn fy rwH lnsn jzyr@ Hfl@ blslm wlbhj@ wmHfwf@ bmr`bt hdhh lHy@ lty lm tkd tnjly ln. r`k llh! l tGdr tlk ljzyr@! fnk n Gdrth fln t`wd lyh 'bd!
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Herman Melville |
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Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in faces--though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presen..
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fate
destiny
freewill
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lknh ybdw wHydan, wHydan tmman fy lkwn, qT`@ mn HTm sfyn@ fy `rD l'TlnTy
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Herman Melville |
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Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!
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Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the..
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motivational
life
inspirational
fortitude
resilience
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as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness seemed the material counterpart ..
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And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and ..
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tattoos
tattoo
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Herman Melville |
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Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it.
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hunts
life
game-theory
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Herman Melville |
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Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?
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Herman Melville |
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Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
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for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
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thought
soul
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Herman Melville |
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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.
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wDTj`t lqwrb lthlth@ hnlk fy rfq `l~ sTH lm lmtdHrj why tHdq fy lZhyr@ l'bdy@ lzrq, wlm tnb`th mn '`mq lzrq@ 'nW@ 'w SyH@ m, l wlm tnTlq htzz@ 'w nfkh@ m, flw 'n 'Hd 'bn lbr shhd hdh lmshhd 'kn ykhTr lh 'n 'shd lHywnt lbHry@ wHshy@ ytlwW~ wyt`qS bl`dhb lmbrH tHt Zhr dhlk lSmt wtlk lskyn@ lmTmy'n@?
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Herman Melville |
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Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.
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Herman Melville |
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wmthlm 'n 'Tfl ladmyyn yHdqwn fy hdw wthbt b`yd `n lthdy whm yrD`wn k'nm yHywn Hytyn fy an m` - fbynm hm ymtkwn lGdh ljsdy m yzlwn rwHy ystTybwn dhkryt Gyr 'rDy@ - kdhlk kn yf`l SGr 'wly'k lHytn, knw k'nm ynZrwn nHwn l~ '`l~ wlknhm l ynZrwnn, k'nn `shb@ mn '`shb lkhlyj fy 'nZrhm lwlyd@ lHdyth@ l`hd blnZr.
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Herman Melville |
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fyn jmy`an HfWr dkhyl l ykf `n l`ml fy mnjmh. wlkn 'nW~ ln 'n ndry l~ 'yn ytjh lnfq ldhy yHfrh min lstm` l~ Swt f'sh lmktwm lmtnql 'bdan?
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though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back's spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale's, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus th..
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Herman Melville |
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oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.
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liars
oaths
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Herman Melville |
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Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.
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Herman Melville |
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I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?
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Herman Melville |
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But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.
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