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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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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."
"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."
"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."
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"Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility."
"He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power."
"So much of a novelist's writing, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them."
"Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity."
"But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice."
"I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable."
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