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"At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang."
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"I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping."
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"He was every angel and every devil."
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"Love always doesn't come across as bad, but it always has two sides."
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"The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle."
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"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
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"A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy."
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"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
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"In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light."
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"Happiness are guest in life but pain is Part of life."
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"Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God's eyes, they are both "material (matter). What does God say about this? "All are materials!"
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"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's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell."
Life
"Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way-either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content."
Society
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
Life
"Strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming?"
Life
"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."
Travel
"Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness."
Ethics
"All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad."
Mindset
"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."
Ambition
"He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea."
Spiritual
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