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title: "50 Melville Quotes by 35 authors"
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> [“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/but-moby-dick-is-the-explanation-of-america-it-s-not-just-a-novel-it/)

[Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/)

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> [The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing-class-is-always-distressing/)

[Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/)

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> [Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-dahlberg/herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a-civilized-literature-as-the/)

[Edward Dahlberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-dahlberg/)

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> [“Melville’s last published novel, The Confidence-Man (1857), a notably “talky” text that offers a useful allegory of the very”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/melville-s-last-published-novel-the-confidence-man-1857-a-notably/)

[Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sianne-ngai/)

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> [As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-philbrick/as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoing-monster-of-a-man-captain/)

[Nathaniel Philbrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-philbrick/)

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> [Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-santa-clause-on-you-shirts-but-it/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/of-erections-how-few-are-domed-like-st-peter-s-of-creatures-how-few/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/updike-s-style-is-an-exquisite-blend-of-melville-and-austen-reading/)

[Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/)

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> [“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art , the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/it-was-easy-enough-to-write-a-sentence-but-if-you-were-going-to-2/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

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> [ “She \[Beatrice\] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark -… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/she-beatrice-alone-was-still-real-for-him-still-implied-meaning-in/)

[Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/)

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> [“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-finkel/herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick-largely-withdrew-from-public/)

[Michael Finkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-finkel/)

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> [Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/man-s-deliberate-destruction-of-his-own-habitat-planet-earth-could/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-in-fervently-herman-melville/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

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> [“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/they-have-provided-a-system-which-for-terse-comprehensiveness/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/think-of-shakespeare-and-melville-and-you-think-of-thunder-lightning/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/how-i-snuffed-that-tartar-air-how-i-spurned-that-turnpike-earth-that/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-one-would-like-to-have-filmed/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-greene/we-go-to-sea-repeatedly-from-melville-s-time-on-and-the-image-of-men/)

[Maxine Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-greene/)

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> [In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/in-many-college-english-courses-the-words-myth-and-symbol-are-given-a/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-carey/a-ship-doesn-t-look-quite-the-same-from-inside-does-it-a-wise-sailor/)

[Diane Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-carey/)

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> [Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-to-take-a-dive-and-either-you/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

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> [Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my-gods-are-herman-melville/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

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> [Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-howe/herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily-dickinson-isn-t-either-maybe/)

[Susan Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-howe/)

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> [Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/gene-wolfe-is-the-greatest-writer-in-the-english-language-alive-today/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

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> [“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-jay-dolin/the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-american-whalemen-were/)

[Eric Jay Dolin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-jay-dolin/)

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> [“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-m-appel/to-the-bankrupt-poet-to-the-jilted-lover-to-anyone-who-yearns-to/)

[Jacob M. Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-m-appel/)

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> [“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melville-chapter-1-loomings-call-me/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [ “...it’s worth pointing out that \[Herman Melville\] worked in \[the New York Custom House\] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melville-worked-in-the-new-york/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

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> [“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it-seems-to-me-that-one-gets-a/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/call-me-ishmael-some-years-ago-never-mind-how-long-precisely-having/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-l-barkat/you-could-use-a-moth-like-that-as-a-symbol-in-a-novel-but-it-was/)

[L.L. Barkat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-l-barkat/)

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> [“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/now-the-various-species-of-whales-need-some-sort-of-popular/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/it-was-a-black-and-hooded-head-and-hanging-there-in-the-midst-of-so/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [ I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in \[clothing store\] Brandy Melville like all the other moms. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwyneth-paltrow/i-m-able-to-be-a-normal-mom-for-the-most-part-i-m-in-clothing-store/)

[Gwyneth Paltrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwyneth-paltrow/)

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> [Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-tuten/whether-one-becomes-famous-or-not-you-have-to-be-reminded-of-people/)

[Frederic Tuten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-tuten/)

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> [I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-moved-to-new-england-partly-because-it-has-a-real-literary-past-the/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [“Melville, in his relation to belief, was like the last guest who cannot leave the party; he was always returning to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-wood/melville-in-his-relation-to-belief-was-like-the-last-guest-who-cannot/)

[James Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-wood/)

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> [“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/been-forgotten-but-his-longest-novel-moby-dick-largely-considered-a/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-philbrick/melville-s-example-demonstrates-the-wisdom-of-waiting-to-read-the/)

[Nathaniel Philbrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-philbrick/)

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> [“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-rodham-clinton/we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-lives-are-connected-by-a-2/)

[Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-rodham-clinton/)

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## Top authors on Melville

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-herman-melville-41890.jpg) Herman Melville 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melville/herman-melville/)

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                        "text": "In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.",
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                        "text": "“A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time stand upon the shore and watch his ship sail by, that he shall from then on appreciate not being left behind.' He grinned and added, 'Eh?' George gave him a little grimace. 'Who's that? Melville? Or C.S. Forrester?' It's me!' Robert complained. \"Can't I be profound now and again?' Hell, no.' Why not?' Because you're still alive. Gotta be dead to be profound.' You're unchivalrous, George.”",
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                        "text": "Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.",
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                        "text": "Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.",
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                        "text": "Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.",
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                        "text": "Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning",
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                        "text": "“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance, endurance, and survival. They mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, sang, spun yarns, scrimshawed, and recorded their musings and observations in journals and letters. They survived boredom, backbreaking work, tempestuous seas, floggings, pirates, putrid food, and unimaginable cold. Enemies preyed on them in times of war, and competitors envied them in times of peace. Many whalemen died from violent encounters with whales and from terrible miscalculations about the unforgiving nature of nature itself. And through it all, whalemen, those “iron men in wooden boats” created a legacy of dramatic, poignant, and at times horrific stories that can still stir our emotions and animate the most primal part of our imaginations. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” proclaimed Herman Melville, and the epic story of whaling is one of the mightiest themes in American history.”",
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                        "text": "“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious illusion of easy death. Melville prepared for the plunge from the breakwater on the South Street promenade, Whitman at the railing of the outbound ferry, both men redeemed by some Darwinian impulse, maybe some epic vision, which enabled them to change leaden water into lyric wine. Hart Crane rejected the limpid estuary for the brackish swirl of the Caribbean Sea. In each generation, from Washington Irving’s to Truman Capote’s, countless young men of promise and talent have examined the rippling foam between the nation’s literary furnace and her literary playground, questioning whether the reams of manuscript in their Brooklyn lofts will earn them garlands in Manhattan’s salons and ballrooms, wavering between the workroom and the water. And the city had done everything in its power to assist these men, to ease their affliction and to steer them toward the most judicious of decisions. It has built them a bridge.”",
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                        "text": "“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If”",
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                        "text": "“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature’s loss as the republic’s gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of.”",
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                        "text": "“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression of the man than from anything one may learn of his life and circumstances; an impression of a man endowed by nature with a great gift blighted by an evil genius, so that, like the agave, no sooner had it put forth its splendid blooming than it withered; a moody, unhappy man tormented by instincts he shrank from with horror; a man conscious that the virtue had gone out of him, and embittered by failure and poverty; a man of heart craving for friendship, only to find that friendship too was vanity. Such, as I see him, was Herman Melville, a man whom one can only regard with deep compassion.”",
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