"Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more."
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"Being unconditionally happy is a practice: "Come what may, today I'm going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath.""
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"Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth."
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"The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate."
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"There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable."
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"May these vows and this marriage be blessed."
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"Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine."
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"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
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"Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way."
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"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance."
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"We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down."
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"War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start."
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"Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause."
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"Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable."
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"Will you love me in December as you do in May?"
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"What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience."
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"An injury may prove a blessing."
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"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
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"Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels."
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"Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute."
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