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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 honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"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."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
"We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer."
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"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."
"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."
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