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"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
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"Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!"

"I'll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist."

"Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares."

"Explore the deep ocean."

"There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered. Another kind of traveler requires to know in terms of maps exactly where he is pin-pointed at every moment, as though there were some kind of safety in black and red lines, in dotted indications and squirming blue of lakes and the shadings that indicate mountains. It is not so with me. I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states."

"Explore new sacred land."

"Life is a daring adventure. I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey."

"I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do."
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"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."

"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."

"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."

"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."

"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
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