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Herman Melville — Portrait after a picture by Joseph Oriel Eaton (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Herman Melville

American writer and poet

1819–1891

37 quotes, most often on Writing, Truth & Lies and Philosophy.

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXIIIn context
- Freedom
- God
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.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Anger
- Enemies
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Nature
- Time
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Age
Truth hath no confines.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Truth & Lies
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XLIVIn context
- Thinking
Even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XCVIIn context
- Character

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