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Worldly Quotes (page 216)

Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled..."
Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. Rainer Maria Rilke
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself. Alexander Dumas
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive. John Steinbeck
It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't, you weren't superfluous, there is no duplicate of you to come and replace you at your mother's side, you were unique, just as every ordinary person is unique, truly unique. Jose Saramago
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid. Edward Abbey
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be..."
I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. Fernando Pessoa
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy. Louisa May Alcott
Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing. Elizabeth Gaskell
Paul Brunton quote: "Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let..."
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew. Paul Brunton
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are. Ayn Rand
Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap. Stephen King
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or..."
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand Leo Tolstoy
...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out. Walker Percy

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