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Herman Melville

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...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.


— Herman Melville


#revenge

Ignorance is the parent of fear.


— Herman Melville


#fear #ignorance #education

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.


— Herman Melville


#love

Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!


— Herman Melville


#satanic #satan

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.


— Herman Melville


#intellect #mental #humor

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?


— Herman Melville


#reproach #waste #nature

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.


— Herman Melville


#truth #inspirational

and tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once.


— Herman Melville


#humor

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.


— Herman Melville


#punishment #repentance #faith

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.


— Herman Melville


#humor






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At first his progress on Moby-Dick moved swiftly. In June he described the book to his English publiHerman Melviller as "a romance of adventure founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale FiHerman Melvilleries" and promised it would be done by the fall. Melville also wrote Billy Budd White-Jacket Israel Potter Redburn Typee Omoo Pierre The Confidence-Man and many short stories including "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" and "Benito Cereno" and works of various genres.

In 1919 the unfiniHerman Melvilled manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was discovered by his first biographer. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer essayist and poet.

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