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“The world is idea.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” - 1902

“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.” John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” - 1869

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“In Nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“There is a world elsewhere.” William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus” - 1623

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“The world is independent of my will.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“The world and life are one.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their...” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.” William Shakespeare, “Venus and Adonis” - 1593

“This world to me is like a lasting storm, whirring me from my friends.” William Shakespeare, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” - 1609

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato, “The Republic”

“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Aren't we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other?” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up...” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 6 February 1985

“People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“Because world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through bottom of bottle.” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“Put in its simplest form, the problem is: How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world given my waist and shirt size?” Woody Allen, “Side Effects” - 1980

“It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

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