"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."
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"The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that."
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"And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."
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"You write in order to change the world."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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"The world is not always ours to understand."
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"When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum."
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"What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it."
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"Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure."
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"One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
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"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism."
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"In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born."
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"The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on."
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"The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge."
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"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."
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"Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you..."
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"I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it."
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"What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?"
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