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"Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?"
"Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself."
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body."
"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
"Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world."
"That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened."
"If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story."
"In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated."
"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them."
"Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense."
"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"
"As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living."
"It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world."
"Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality."
"There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!"
"Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom."
"I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!"
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world."
"The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension."
