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"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
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"To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a peek at the water colors one did the day before, or even a few hours before, is like stealing a look at the beloved while she sleeps. The thrill is even greater if one has first to draw back the curtains. How they glow in the cold light of early dawn! Is there any writer who rouses himself at daybreak in order to read the pages of his manuscript? Perish the thought!"
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
"If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
"Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?"
"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible."
"And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was listening had been in it and that despite his bravery the war had made him a coward and that if he did any more killing it would be wide-awake and in cold blood, and nobody would have the guts to send him to the electric chair because he had performed his duty toward his fellow men, which was to deny his own sacred instincts and so everything was just and fair because one crime washes away the other in the name of God, country and humanity, peace be with you all."
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