But what's this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale! art not game for Moby Dick?" "I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we
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“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
“Just as with storytelling, so with life: it's important how well it is done, not how long.”
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
― Absalom, Absalom!
― Absalom, Absalom!
“The approach of a man's life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive.”
― Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
― Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
“Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency--nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it.”
― Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
― Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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