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We die, because we live.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.
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Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.
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