"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."

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"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

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"So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire."

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"Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard."

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"You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you."

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"Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today."

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"She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow."

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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"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."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

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"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."

"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."

"God is only a great imaginative experience."

"So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire."

"Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard."

"You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you."

"Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today."

"She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow."