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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.
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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.
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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.
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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
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Herman Melville _ Mardi and a Voyage Thither
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.
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