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Herman Melville Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Birthday: August 1

Death: September 28

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

topic: Memories, Son, Past, Blue Sea, No Memory

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