That same image [of Narcissus] we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life: and this is the key to it all.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 48), Moby Dick, Chapter 1 (pp. 2-3)

Herman Melville Quotes

That same image [of Narcissus] we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life: and this is the key to...

That same image [of Narcissus] we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life: and this is the key to...

That same image [of Narcissus] we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life: and this is the key to...

That same image [of Narcissus] we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life: and this is the key to...