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Found a family, build a state,
The pledged event is still the same:
Matter in end will never abate
His ancient brutal claim. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century (l. 1–4). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.

Categories: Mortality, Pessimism

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