"The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world."
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"We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right"
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"I want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers."
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"I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it."
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"Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him."
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"Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines."
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"It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return."
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"Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings."
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"I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni."
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"I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly."
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"What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends."
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"I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?"
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"When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?"
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"We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world."
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"There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing."
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"Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes."
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"To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work."
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"An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world."
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"I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place."
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"My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!"
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