It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing onese…

Herman Melville
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ✨ Herman Melville (2015). Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville, p.254, 谷月社
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ✨ Herman Melville (2015). Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville, p.254, 谷月社

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