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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life Quotes

Surely, if our evil passions must find vent, it is far better to expend them on strangers and aliens, than in the bosom of the community in which we dwell.

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  • What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

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  • Book: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
  • Writer: Herman Melville
  • Genre: Travel, Classics
  • Published: 1846
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