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It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing
World
Affection
Necessary
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
World
Carries
Heart
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The world is full of actors pretending to be human
― J. D. Salinger
Actors
World
Pretending
J. D. Salinger
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
― Erich Maria Remarque
World
Moments
Cigarette
Erich Maria Remarque
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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Generations
World
Way
Erich Maria Remarque
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He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
― J. M. Coetzee
Continues
Provides
Humility
World
Comes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
― Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
World
Course
Conception
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
― Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Self
World
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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
― Hans Christian Andersen
Miracle
Ordinary
World
Miracles
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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
― Hans Christian Andersen
Happiness
Use
World
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‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
― Hans Christian Andersen
Thinking
Doe
World
Beauty
Differently
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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Realize
Beautiful
World
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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Want
Moved
Breathed
World
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore
― Rabindranath Tagore
Read
World
Wrong
Deceives
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In this world, you only get what you grab for.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Get
Grab
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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Affairs
World
Alone
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
― Oscar Wilde
Hypocrisy
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Demand
Degrading
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
― Lev Tolstoy
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Changing
World
Himself
Lev Tolstoy
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
― Lev Tolstoy
Moments
Happiness
Loved
World
Lev Tolstoy
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World
Always
Tea