But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, ind…

Herman Melville
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But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.104
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