When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it ha…

Herman Melville
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When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! ✨ 1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.
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