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“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.”
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“I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Feegee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Feegee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is
Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.”
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Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.”
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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
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“But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! Is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing - straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
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Art, Business, Classics, Historical fiction, Spirituality, Travel, chess, math, law, coffee, magical realism, surrealism, film, psychedelia, Italy, Italian American, sweaters, unreliable narrators, troubled creative geniuses, former gifted children, women's relationships, folktales, fairy tales, ancient belief systems, naturalism, dance, old street communities, gondolas, gargoyles, Russian, mafia, 'Ndrangheta, Istanbul, revolutions in coffeehouses, revolution, French revolution, Camille desmoulins, Antoine de saint exupery, Romani people, accordions, counterculture, mountain villages, fishermen, judaism, unconscious mind, self esteem, spanish inquisition, cannolis, chocolate babkas, ancient Egypt, eve as a historical figure and spiritual symbol, the Rosetta Stone, espresso, history of canals, mandolins, Gabor Szabo, properties of flowers, mayan, and japan
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