"Il n'y a pas de plus profonde solitude que celle du samouraï si ce n'est celle d'un tigre dans la jungle... peut-être..."
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Epigraph ascribed to the Bushidō (the Japanese code of conduct associated with the samurai), but apparently original to Melville.
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