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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 3 Nov. 1851.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 17.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 17.

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 2.

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Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 2.

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The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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Call me Ishmael.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau)

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 11.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 11.

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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

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The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

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Wagner, Richard. Oper und Drama [Opera and Drama]. Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1852.

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Wagner, Richard. Opera and Drama, translated by William Ashton Ellis. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The Stones of Venice

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice: The Foundations. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 4.

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Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 11, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 4.

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The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade, following as such the unreasoning laws of markets and fashion; and public and even private patronage is swayed by their tyrannical influence.

Albert, Prince Consort

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Prince Albert, Consort. "At the Dinner of the Royal Academy." 3 May 1851, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK.

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 3.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 3.

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A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 24.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 24.

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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.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

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All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 41.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 41.

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