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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

"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."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

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

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."

"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."

"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."

"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
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