“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Call me Ishmael.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”
― Moby Dick oder Der Wal
― Moby Dick oder Der Wal
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