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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Call me Ishmael.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
Allen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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