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“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities(…).”

OH MY GOD STOP IT WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WHALES MY DUDE

• "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. In fact, take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me."
• "(...), in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tables sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh."