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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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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."
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."
"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
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