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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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