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“Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!”

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Herman Melville was a renowned 19th-century American novelist known for his profound psychological descriptions and unique literary style. His masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick', is considered a classic of American literature. more

“Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).”

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”

Men Earth Dies Generations Wind Spring Rounds Mortals Bud Iliad Timber Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Author:Homer

“Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.”

Years Wells Imagination Broken Sitting Twenties Legs Iron Bubbles Psychiatrist

Author:Ilona Andrews

“The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me.”

People Should Habit Should Have Conclusion Annoying Correcting Wrong Conclusion

Author:Ilona Andrews

“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”

Want Lost

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Quote by Herman Melville

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