"Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse."
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"A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring."
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"Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world."
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"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat."
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"There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life."
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"It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning."
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"A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive."
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"I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world."
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"If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense."
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"Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself."
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"The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition."
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"The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world."
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"That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?"
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"Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical."
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"I think if people read more, that is a better world."
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"I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup."
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"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."
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"How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to."
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