"You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside."
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"I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up."
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"As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book."
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"[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others."
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"Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world."
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"To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself."
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"Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world..."
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"If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ."
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"Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!"
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"There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?"
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"Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning."
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"It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one."
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"The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man."
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"Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun."
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"Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?"
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"The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world."
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"Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense."
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"Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there"
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"The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation."
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"I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops."
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