“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
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“For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.”
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“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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