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"You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?"
"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her."
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
"The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something that ultimately feels like love to me. The place I do that the best is in my writing. That's where I feel like I can tap into the power of story and maybe bring something good into the world."
"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"
"Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality."
"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
"In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral."
"I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world."
"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
"my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II."
"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him."
"There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts."
"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within."
"If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?"
"Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world."
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren."
