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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville
Reality, Quality, World
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.55

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Herman Melville
Beautiful, Lying, Reality
Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.214, 谷月社

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville
Reality, Survival, Next
Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.28, 谷月社

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