Best quotes from Moby Dick

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moby Dick quotes

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Call me Ishmael.

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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

611

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

590

All mortal greatness is but disease.

571

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

570

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

566

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

555

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

534

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

534

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

516

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts

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Ignorance is the parent of fear.

459

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