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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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- There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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