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"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"The world has become rapidly more competitive."
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"Religions get lost as people do."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."
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"Writers speak stench."
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"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins."
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
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"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
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"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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