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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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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
"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."
"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"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."
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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