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"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
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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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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."

"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."

"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."
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