Melmoth

“We cannibals must help these Christians.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov