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"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
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"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."
"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."
"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
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"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
"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."
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
"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."
"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
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