"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."
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"She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love."
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"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it."
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"Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself."
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"Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses."
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"... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying."
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"The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all."
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"When we have a genuine sense that, no matter how difficult our present circumstances, we are not alone-that we are vitally connected with others and with the world-we will, without fail, rise up to the challenge of living again."
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"In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries."
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"We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education."
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"The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor."
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"Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today"
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"We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world."
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"Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible."
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"We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century."
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"You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something."
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"A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating."
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"Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up."
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"Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices."
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"In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it."
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