The United States wore empire on its brow
Herman MelvilleBenim asıl özüm, yeryüzündeki gölgem dedikleri şeydir bence. Biz ruh işlerine bakarken, tıpkı güneşe suyun içinden bakan istiridyeler gibiyizdir bence; üstlerindeki ağır suyu, havaların en hafifi sanan istiridyeler gibi. Bence bedenim, asıl varlığımın tortusudur ancak. İsteyen alsın bedenimi, evet alsın, çünkü o, ben değilim. Varsın gemi de batsın, bedenim de batsın dilediği zaman. Ruhuma gelince, Jüpiter gelse batıramaz onu.
Herman MelvilleFor whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Herman MelvilleCussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die
Herman MelvilleYes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman MelvilleI'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
Herman MelvilleTags: friend kindness christian courtesy pagan
If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.
Herman MelvilleSo have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
Herman MelvilleThere, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
Herman MelvilleI felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
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