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"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"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."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

"I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it."
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"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."

"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."

"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."

"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"

"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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