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"There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all."
"The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind."
"My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world."
"I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion."
"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
"In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion."
"How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said."
"The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness."
"It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes."
"I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs."
"We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world"
"Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
"Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world."
"There are only two places in the world: over here and over there."
"Do well and right and let the world sink."
"The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor."
"Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us."
"The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete."
"Be sure that you make a difference in the world."
"He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."
