"God keep me from ever completing…" — Herman Melville

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Que Dieu me garde de jamais rien achever Ce livre entier n'est qu'une ébauche non qu'une ébauche d'une ébauche

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“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast Nothing exists...”

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