Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
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He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
Herman Melville in Moby Dick
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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.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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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.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover, my mother told me as a boy
'Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.'
I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Sandro bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as Achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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