"The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man."
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"What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there."
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"The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe."
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"I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people."
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"It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other."
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"There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it."
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"Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world."
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"There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world."
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"writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts."
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"If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world."
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"I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want."
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"It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S."
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"America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory."
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"It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark."
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"What is correct action in a deteriorating world?"
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"I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there."
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"The world is me and I am the world."
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"As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world."
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"The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love."
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"I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!"
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