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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Herman Melville

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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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