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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale Quotes: So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.
         

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.


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