Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with li… - Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Alternative Names: Hermann Melville • Herman Melvill

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Born in throes, ‘t is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.

Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. - Herman Melville

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