We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

—Herman Melville

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About Herman Melville

Portrait of Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his...

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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

—Herman Melville

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

—Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling.

—Herman Melville

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

—Herman Melville

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

—Herman Melville

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Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care.

—Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered

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It's interesting, isn't it? That you can find yourself feeling so awkward in unfamiliar surroundings that you become more self-aware and more self-conscious? Maybe that lack of connection to an unfamiliar place can actually give you freedom to open up and see yourself.

—Lauren Graham in Maybe

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Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now…

—Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls

For the Dargara people, death results in simply a different form of belonging to the community. It is a lesson… that change is the norm, that the world is defined by eternal cycles of decline and regeneration.… Death is not a separation but a different form of communion, a higher form of connectedness… providing an opportunity for even greater service.

—Malidoma Somé

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She's your one. The one who reaches you. The one who makes you different.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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