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Herman Melville quotes

American novelist (1819-1891), author of Moby-Dick.

• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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• I try all things; I achieve what I can.

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• I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

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