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"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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"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."
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."
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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
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