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"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
"Call me Ishmael"
The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
"Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever."
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and…
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WILLIAMHE
they call me ismalhel
In this world ... sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport, whereas virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Take high abstracted man alone and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.