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Worldly Quotes (page 142)

George Orwell quote: "The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men..."
The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf. George Orwell
John Gardner quote: "The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else."
The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else. John Gardner
Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the city with no particular emotion except a mild boredom, unease, exasperation, and dislike especially for, say, Times Square and Brooklyn, and a longing for a Connecticut farmhouse. Later you become an astronaut and wander in space for years. You land on a strange, unexplored (you think) planet. There you find a road sign with an arrow, erected by a previous astronaut in the manner of... Walker Percy
Michael Ondaatje quote: "To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without..."
To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgement. Michael Ondaatje
Azar Nafisi quote: "THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO US, when they die, divide our world."
THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO US, when they die, divide our world. Azar Nafisi
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is? Stephen Hawking
The day may come when, contemplating a world given back to the primeval forst, a human survivor will have no means of even guessing how much intelligence Man once imposed upon the forms of the earth, when he set up the stones of Florence in the billowing expanse of the Tuscan olive-groves. No trace will be left then of the palaces that saw Michelangelo pass by, nursing his grievances against Raphael; and nothing of the little Paris cafes where Renoir once sat beside Cezanne, Van Gogh beside... Andre Malraux
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume. Edmond Rostand
Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Albert Camus quote: "What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as..."
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. Albert Camus
Bram Stoker quote: "I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of..."
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing. Bram Stoker
Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy. Anthony Kiedis
Thomas Moore quote: "There are places in this world that are neither here nor..."
There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary... Thomas Moore
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of... Milton Friedman
When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person. Russell Brand

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