"[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be."
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"I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change."
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"Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may."
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"Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses."
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"We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake."
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"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!"
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"I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."
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"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
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"Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
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"A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself."
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"Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners."
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"I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family."
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"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."
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"All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do."
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"Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings."
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"Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease."
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"I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics."
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"Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make."
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"The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished."
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"I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me."
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