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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."

"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."

"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."

"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."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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