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Death Quotes by Herman Melville

49 Death quotes by Herman Melville

Herman Melville sees death as a powerful natural law that both ends and creates life, like a flood that reshapes the world. He writes that death can sanctify a name and turn suffering into a strange kind of satisfaction. He also describes death as a relentless bandit that pursues us from youth to old age.

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