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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no… — Herman Melville

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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851
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WarmthColdOppositesYin and yang
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Time
1851
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Herman Melville
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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 11.
Original citation
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 11.

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