"The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world."
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"It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world."
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"When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries."
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"Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when."
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"Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly."
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs."
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"The world worries about disability more than disabled people do."
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"When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses."
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"I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time."
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"No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta."
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"Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery."
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
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"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue."
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."
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"The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped."
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"We are in our Self. We are not in the world."
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"The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine."
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"The Britons are quite separated from all the world."
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"A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words."
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