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"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
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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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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"It's a brave new world."
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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience


"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
Man


"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
World


"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
People


"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
Man


"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Family


"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
Soothing


"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
Travel


"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
Death


"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time
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