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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
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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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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
Exploration

"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
Work

"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
Home

"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
Land

"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship

"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being

"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
Language

"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life

"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
People
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