"One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful."
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"To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement."
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"Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world."
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"That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer."
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"If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well."
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"Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality."
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"We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best."
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"There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms."
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"So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
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"Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world."
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"What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?"
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"The world cares little for principles. They care for persons."
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"The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too."
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"Life in this world is an attempt to see God."
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"On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite."
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"The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause."
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"To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it."
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"In the world take always the position of the giver."
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"It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world."
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"The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely."
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