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• Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.

  Sarah Dessen

  World, Way, Sometimes

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• Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.

  Adam Selzer

  Song, Sorry, People

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• The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!

  Arnold Lobel

  Buttons, World, Covered

  "Adventures of Frog and Toad".

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• I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Names, Monsters, World

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• This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Artist, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hate, Light, World

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• I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

  Paul Bowles

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, World

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

  Anne Rice

  Flames, World, Tiny

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2116, Ballantine Books

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• He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Strong, Lying, Passion

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aylmer Maude (1937). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude”

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• When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Jobs, Moving, Rivers

  "Amazing Spider-Man #537". Comics by J. Michael Straczynski, December 2006.

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• The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting, World, Disaster

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Two, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  Norton Juster

  World, Phantom Tollbooth, Something New

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

  Agatha Christie

  World, Wonder, Generalisation

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• Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his eyes.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, World, Green

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.256, Penguin

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• Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Stupid, Eye, People

  Jonathan Lethem (2008). “You Don't Love Me Yet”, p.205, Vintage

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• Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Knowing, World, Arms

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Mar 18, 2017

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Fairy Tale, Ever After

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

  Michael Grant

  Pain, World, Whole

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kissing, Giving, Forever

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• An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Forgiving, World

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• I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

  Rumi

  Heart, World, Weeping

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• If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Twenties, Afternoon

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.702, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Mother, Black

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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