The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpl…

Herman Melville
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. ✨ Herman Melville (2015). Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville, p.28, 谷月社
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