He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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“For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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