"They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape."
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"No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings."
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"Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world."
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"This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right."
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"There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world."
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"I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality."
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"The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul."
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"The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity."
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"Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world."
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"Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance."
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"The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde."
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"In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all."
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"The world belongs to the discontented."
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"The world is made by the singer for the dreamer."
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"The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it."
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"But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms."
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"Any place you love is the world to you."
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"America is not a country, it is a world."
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"The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet."
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"Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw."
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