"Call me Ishmael."
"It is not down on any map; true places never are."
"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale!"
"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing."
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
"I try all things, I achieve what I can."
"I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail."
"Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever."
"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me."
"I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!"
"It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks."
"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run."
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport."
"I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things."
"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."
"For in tremendous extremities, the soul will ever employ all her faculties to defend herself from despair."
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