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- All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
(William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair")
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- When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
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- Ah! I am a bad man, Lady Glyde, am I not? I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
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- I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
(William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew")
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- It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
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- The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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