better is it to perish in that howling infinite

images-duckduckgo-com«As in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God – so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety. »

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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