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"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."
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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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"And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday."

"Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!"

"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand-that is art."

"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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