"Moby Dick"

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• Delight is to him—a far, far upward, and inward delight— who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
• Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
• always equal to himself / the wolfish world
• what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator.
• There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
• For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air.
• Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
• ... seemed to be saying to himself—"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians."
• while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.

Ship finally in sight:

• that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis
• And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans
• Her masts stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Beckett bled.
• A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
• I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
• The other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.
• to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation's census— a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
• For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
• The sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. This world pays dividends.
• am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.
• "thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell;
• “Out of the cabin, ye canting, drab-colored son of a wooden gun—a straight wake with ye!"

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