88 ordspråk av Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville föddes den 1 augustus 1819 och dog den 28 september 1891 - Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick.
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 The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. |
| The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. |
| The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. |
| There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke |
| There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. |
| There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. |
| There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath |
| 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. |
| There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan |
| They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. |
| They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! |
| This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. |
| Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them . . . |
| Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols. |
| 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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