Bartelby The Scrivener Quotes

“With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcerted me”
― Herman Melville, Bartelby The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street — A Classic Tale of Isolation and Resistance by the Author of Moby-Dick

“But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe.”
― Herman Melville, Bartelby The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street — A Classic Tale of Isolation and Resistance by the Author of Moby-Dick