Bliss Quote by D. H. Lawrence
“Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.”
![“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.” quote by Michael Oren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg)
