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Jean-Pierre Melville

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HERMAN MELVILLE There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
HERMAN MELVILLE Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou...
HERMAN MELVILLE Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...
HERMAN MELVILLE [T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men...
HERMAN MELVILLE I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLE Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-w...
HERMAN MELVILLE La felicidad busca la luz, por eso nos parece que el mundo es alegre; pero el sufrimiento se esconde...
HERMAN MELVILLE A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
HERMAN MELVILLE Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in...
MARTI MELVILLE In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested appl...
HERMAN MELVILLE Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
HERMAN MELVILLE A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
HERMAN MELVILLE [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago...
HERMAN MELVILLE So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that...
HERMAN MELVILLE inherently improbable and not credible.
RODNEY MELVILLE He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were m...
HERMAN MELVILLE Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity
HERMAN MELVILLE Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.
HERMAN MELVILLE Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth
HERMAN MELVILLE Art is the objectification of feeling.
HERMAN MELVILLE No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses
HERMAN MELVILLE Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...
HERMAN MELVILLE Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be wea...
HERMAN MELVILLE Ничто так не выделяло этого человека, как его очевидна�...
HERMAN MELVILLE The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
HERMAN MELVILLE Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last. And in...
HERMAN MELVILLE For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...
HERMAN MELVILLE Ignorance is the parent of fear.
HERMAN MELVILLE To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
HERMAN MELVILLE