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• There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

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  Asking Why, Borders, World

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• Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

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  Horse, Trying, Athens

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

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  World, Want, Stills

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• Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

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  Daughter, Queens, Love You

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

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  Philosophical, Giving, Use

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• The universe is a great mystery.

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  Mystery, Universe

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• He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

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  Done, Athens, Leniency

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• Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

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  Tired, Hands, Years

  Jostein Gaarder (1996). “The Christmas Mystery”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

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  Police, Good Questions, Answers

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