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    Herman Melville

    Read through the most famous quotes from Herman Melville




    I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #depends #handsome #hideous #i #i am

    There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #call #certain #his #joke #life

    There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #awful #beneath #gently #hidden #knows

    To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #chapters #difficult #great #great art #grow

    Art is the objectification of feeling. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #feeling #objectification

    Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #cannibal #christian #drunken #sleep #sober

    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

    #grapple #hate #heart #hell #i

    Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #edges #ragged #told #truth #will

    A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #harvard #ship #whale #yale

    To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗


    — Herman Melville

    #choose #enduring #ever #flea #great






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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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