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“Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick oder Der Wal

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale