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But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Strangest problems of life seem clearing — but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, wi — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps a little sad — Nathaniel Hawthorne
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author — Herman Melville
When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the roy — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the deser — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
We are the pioneers of the world — the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...
It's only his outside — a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. — Django Wylie, The Middle
In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin — David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board. — Ray Bradbury
and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes — Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor