"It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds."
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"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow."
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"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us."
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"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
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"If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it."
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"He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him."
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"Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections."
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"Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it."
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"You shine like a beacon in a dark world."
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"Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things."
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"Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around."
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"The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck."
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"I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them."
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"It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important."
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"Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world."
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"When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy."
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"Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil."
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"We need more science in the world. Train me."
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"The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world."
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"The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions"
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