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Quote by Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ach

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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Sailing
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

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Future
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali

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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Ive got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, thats nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right Im a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff. – Nathan Fillion

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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. – James Cagney

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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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