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"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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Personal Development
"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."
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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
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"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."
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"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."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
Desire
"A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge."
Society
"In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her."
Psychology
"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
Duty
"You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.""I can feel.""No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.""It's not fine. It's just not so bad."
Emotion
"The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke."
Society
"I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was."
Memory
"Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education."
Society
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