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The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from... Jack Vance
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unsharable sorrow which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce it’s infinite mystery– we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only– a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the... L. M. Montgomery
We may be together for another six months--a year-- there's no knowing. At the end we're certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be? George Orwell
Jeanette Winterson quote: "For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed."
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. Jeanette Winterson
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays Barbara Taylor Bradford
There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all. Anne Bradstreet
The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields people from the consequences of their actions. However cruel Attila, Genghis Khan and their followers may have been, the act of killing people personally, face to face, must have been unpleasant: the wailing relatives and the presence of the corpses. And thus their cruelty was restrained. Nowadays we kill people through such a complex process of... Leo Tolstoy
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. Homer
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease..."
And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be! Alfred Lord Tennyson
Russell Hoban quote: "Oh, yes,' said Mother, 'you may be sure that there will always..."
Oh, yes,' said Mother, 'you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here. Russell Hoban
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding. Roger Zelazny
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: ", and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart,..."
..., and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us. Fyodor Dostoevsky
T. S. Eliot quote: "Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life..."
Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living. T. S. Eliot
The ShellThe sea fills my earwith sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the soundof the ghost of the seathat is haunting me. Ted Hughes
Robert W. Service quote: "Even goats may have starlight in their eyes."
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes. Robert W. Service

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