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"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

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

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

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

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

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

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

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."

"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."

"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
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