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"Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things existent are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now 's the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the aid and promise of most endangered life. A life-buoy of a coffin! Does it go further? Tin it exist that in some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver! I 'll think of that."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"So seemed it to me, as I stood at her captain, and for long hours silently guided the style of this fire-transport on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I only the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and one-half in burn, these at concluding begat kindred visions in my soul, so presently as I began to yield to that unaccountable drowsiness which e'er would come over me at a midnight helm."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Skuta var topptung som en middagsløs student med hodet fullt av Aristoteles."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Only Faith, similar a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her nearly vital hope."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, the White Whale

"What'southward all this fuss I have been making nigh, thought I to myself—the man'due south a human existence merely as I am: he has just every bit much reason to fearfulness me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better slumber with a sober carnivorous than a drunken Christian."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, the White Whale

"ولكن هذا الخـَوَر العارض سمة تكاد تعم كل الكائنات التي تعيش في القطيع، فالجواميس البرية في الغرب الأمريكي - ذات الأعراف كألباد الأسود - تحتشد في أعداد تبلغ عشرات الألوف، وتفر هاربة أمام خيّال واحد وتأمل أيضا جميع بني البشر: كيف يكونون محتشدين في حظيرة يسمونها قاعة المسرح، فإذا أُنذروا محض إنذار طفيف باشتعال النار اندفعوا في هياط ومياط نحو المنافذ، متجمهرين متكدسين يطأ بعضهم بعضا، ويدفع أحدهم الآخر إلى الموت دون إشفاق!"
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"The White Whale swam earlier him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and one-half a lung."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Queequeg estaba convencido de que si un hombre estaba decidido a vivir, la enfermedad nunca sería capaz de matarlo y que lo único que podía acabar con su vida era una ballena, una tempestad o cualquier otra fuerza violenta, destructiva e inmanejable de esa naturaleza."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"for few men's courage is proof confronting protracted meditation unrelieved by action"
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over whatsoever ignominious blotch in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, and so could I exercise the other;"
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, the White Whale

"hell is an thought showtime born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since and then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

"His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-pocketknife from his cleaved prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And so it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"While his one live leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap. On life and death this sometime homo walked."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"On one side hung a very large oil-painting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the diff cross-lights past which you viewed it, information technology was just by diligent study and a serial of systematic visits to it, and careful research of the neighbors, that you lot could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose. such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first y'all near thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bugged. But by dint of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and specially by throwing open the niggling window towards the dorsum of the entry, yous at last come to the conclusion that such an thought, withal wild, might not exist altogether unwarranted.

Just what well-nigh puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the heart of the moving-picture show over three bluish, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy film truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was in that location a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity well-nigh it that adequately froze you to information technology, till yous involuntarily took an oath with yourself to discover out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a brilliant, but, alas, deceptive thought would sprint you through. - It'south the Black Bounding main in a midnight gale. - It'southward the unnatural combat of the four primal elements. - It'south a blasted heath. - It's a Hyperborean winter scene. - It's the breaking- up of the ice-bound stream of Time. Simply at last all these fancies yielded to that i portentous something in the motion-picture show's midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plainly. But cease; does it non carry a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? fifty-fifty the bang-up Leviathan himself?"
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"But though no other nation has ever had whatever written whaling police, even so the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian'due south Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Gild for the Suppression of Meddling with other People'southward Business. Aye; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Anne'due south farthing, or the barb of a harpoon, and worn circular the neck, so small are they. I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for everyone who can soonest catch it."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

"For, say they, when cruising in an empty send, if yous can get nothing better out of the globe, get a practiced dinner out of it, at least."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole majority about; makes all coasts one Bay to information technology; seems middle-beating heart of earth."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an like shooting fish in a barrel chair. What he thought of decease itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever idea of it at all, might be a question; but, if he e'er did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, similar a skillful crewman, he took it to exist a sort of phone call of the scout to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves at that place, about something which he would detect out when he obeyed the social club, and not sooner."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Information technology was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of argent; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a argent silence, non a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in accelerate of the white bubbling at the bow."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare'south? But if his optics were broad every bit the lens of Herschel'due south great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that brand him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you lot try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"At concluding the anchor was upwardly, the sails were set, and off nosotros glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the brusk northern mean solar day merged into dark, we found ourselves nigh broad upon the wintry sea, whose freezing spray cased usa in ice, equally in polished armor. The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and similar the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Information technology sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows. And also, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior distance. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to exist loftier lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand up on."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fright, and being completely nonplussed and confounded near the stranger, I confess I was at present as much afraid of him equally if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the expressionless of dark. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game plenty just then to accost him, and need a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, the White Whale

"Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me. "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his confront, only looks so much the more than a coward."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

"Aye, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there."
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, the White Whale

"I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Expiry as well, Captain Ahab, if information technology fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; simply I came here to hunt whales, not my commander'due south vengeance. How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee fifty-fifty if chiliad gettest it, Captain Ahab? It volition non fetch thee much in our Nantucket market."
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

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