"The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing."
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"Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature."
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"Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters."
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"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night."
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"I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls"
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"A poet is a world enclosed in a man."
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"Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday."
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"Fans are my favourite thing in the world"
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"Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!"
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"There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it."
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"The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots."
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"For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process)."
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"This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends."
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"For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure."
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"Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders."
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"Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."
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"It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in."
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"For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture."
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"Build therefore your own world."
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"The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day."
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