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“This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, A Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“He concentrated on braking, shifting, accelerating. Death could not find him. He was moving too fast for it.”
― Robert Daley, Cars at Speed: Classic Stories from Grand Prix's Golden Age

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale