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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
"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."
"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."
"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
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