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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
"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."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
"It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion."
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."
"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."
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