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Worldly Quotes (page 379)

Vladimir Nabokov quote: "No Leslie, I'm not dead. I have finished building a world, and..."
No Leslie, I'm not dead. I have finished building a world, and this is my Sabbath rest. Vladimir Nabokov
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world. Donna Tartt
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too..."
A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things," the doorman said. Chuck Palahniuk
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading. Michael Jackson
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Anais Nin
You want to beat Peter?" she asked"No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win"You don't understand" he said"Yes i do"No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter"Then what do you want?"I want him to love me Orson Scott Card
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us. Joseph Campbell
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in..."
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it. Willa Cather
Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? Margaret Atwood
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i. e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered. Helen Fielding
The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door. Thomas Merton
Philip Pullman quote: "So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were..."
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. Philip Pullman
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can. David Herbert Lawrence

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