"The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm."
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"To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism."
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"I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards."
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"The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world."
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"Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own."
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"From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape."
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"Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe."
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"If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing."
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"Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you."
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"The world is a playground, and death is the night."
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"Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."
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"Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world."
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"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence."
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"The whole world may not understand me, but I don’t care."
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"The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time."
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"Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving."
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"Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all."
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"She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake."
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"If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired"
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"She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world."
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