"Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you."
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"Do real and permanent good in this world."
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"We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape."
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"There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment."
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"The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand."
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"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."
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"I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me."
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"Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world."
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"Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world."
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"Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic."
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"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
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"Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions."
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"Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you."
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"Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer."
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"How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?"
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"So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked."
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"Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world."
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"My generation has the opportunity to change the world."
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"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."
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"Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution."
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