“Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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