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"Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none."
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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."
"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."
"It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. He spoke five words just now, but in the time it took him to speak those five words, my heart was shredded and minced, then placed back inside my chest with the expectation that it should somehow know how to beat again."
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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."
"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
"Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat."
"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."
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