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"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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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."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."
Desire
"I love devils."
Love
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
Quality
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
Books
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