"In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May."
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"It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."
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"I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be."
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"Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest."
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"Without Justice, no realm may prosper."
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"Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization."
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"When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing."
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"By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources"
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"But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may."
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"There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may."
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"What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path."
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"Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations."
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"You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light."
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"Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story."
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"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."
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"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"
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"In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet."
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"A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue."
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"Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker."
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"To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic."
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