"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."

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

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

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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."

"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."

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

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"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."

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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

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"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."

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