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Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
Thomas BostonRead
A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.Read
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world
Robert CaroRead
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.
Woodrow WilsonRead
How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
ConfuciusRead
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
David LynchRead
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
Robert Green IngersollRead
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.
Rosalind FranklinRead
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
RumiRead
I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
Barbara KingsolverRead
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
George R. R. MartinRead
You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.
Terry PratchettRead
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
Thomas LigottiRead
there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
Franz KafkaRead
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
Charlotte BronteRead
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Frank HerbertRead

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