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Benito Cereno QUOTES

Benito Cereno QUOTES

1 " This slavery breeds ugly passions in man. "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

2 " Nature cared not a jot. "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

3 " The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come. "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

4 " 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 , Benito Cereno

5 " the king of kind hearts and polite fellows "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

6 " His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions. "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

7 " images far swifter than these sentences "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

8 " all was eclipsed in sinister muteness "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

9 " But, in fact, his reserve might, in some degree, have proceeded from design. If so, then here was evinced the unhealthy climax of that icy though conscientious policy, more or less adopted by all commanders of large ships, which, except in signal emergencies, obliterates alike the manifestation of sway with every trace of sociality; transforming the man into a block, or rather into a loaded cannon, which, until there is call for thunder, has nothing to say. Viewing "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

10 " wen "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

11 " Lascars "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno

12 " Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be. "

― Herman Melville , Benito Cereno