American - Novelist | July 22, 1900 - February 27, 1977
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.
Edward Dahlberg
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
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To write is a humiliation.
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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
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