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"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"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."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"School is a foretaste of life."
Life

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
Love

"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself."
Strength

"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."
War

"Being gifted needs courage."
Courage

"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
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"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
Family

"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
Cultural

"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
Home

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty."
Life
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