"He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation."
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"They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it."
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"We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false."
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"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us."
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"It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous."
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"Your soul is the whole world."
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"Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter."
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"Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem."
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"I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
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"A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life."
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"Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?"
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"Come, see the true flowers of this pained world."
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"The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world."
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"The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence."
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"Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind."
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"We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world."
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"It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place."
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"It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is."
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"Make joy and happiness the center of your world."
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"It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it."
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