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“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.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

tags: music, power-of-music, solitude

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“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.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: inspirational, truth

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“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: animals, beasts, human-condition, humanity, men

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“...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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