Herman Melville Quotes
Best Pierre Quotes by Herman Melville
Pierre Quotes
“A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man.”
Pierre
“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
Pierre
“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril; – nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
Pierre
“This whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.”
Pierre
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“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
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