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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"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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"The world remains ever the same."
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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 the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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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
"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."
Family
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"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."
Life
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"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
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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