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"The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system."
"Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge."
"No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer."
"It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin."
"May is a pious fraud of the almanac."
"Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive."
"How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives."
"The young may die, but the old must!"
"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
"I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!"
"'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd."
"It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?"
"The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go."
"To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well."
"A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption."
"The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all."
"When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend."
"It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on."
"It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip."
"A man may have no bad habits and have worse"
