Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it i…

Herman Melville
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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.455
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