Worlds Quotes
World was in the face of the beloved--,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.
Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink
world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it?
Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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![Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is..."](/pic/68954/600x316/quotation-elizabeth-barrett-browning-worlds-use-is-cold-worlds-love-is.jpg)
![Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Worldly Wisdom. Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of..."](/pic/270301/600x316/quotation-friedrich-nietzsche-worldly-wisdom-do-not-stay-in-the-field.jpg)
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . .
John F. Kennedy
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. Everything enters something else. My days spill into light-years. This is why I can only pretend to be someone. And this is why I felt derived at first, working on these pages. I didn't know if it was me that was writing so much as someone I want to sound like.
Don DeLillo