"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."

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"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

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

Jane Austen, British Writer

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

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told."

Time, Idea, Being, Folk

"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."

Nature, Transformation, Change, Impermanence

"Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him."

Aspiration, Hope, Faith, Life, Dream

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."

Philosophy, Uncertainty, Love, Weather, Observation

"We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal."

Existence, Eternity, Life, Truth

"Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned."

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"I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined."

Self, Defiance, Heritage, Will, Passion

"I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything."

Love, Flowers, Romance, Memory, Emotion