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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
Orhan PamukRead
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 LethemRead
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
Joan DidionRead
arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Dale CarnegieRead
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 VonnegutRead
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 TolstoyRead
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
Anne RiceRead
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola TeslaRead
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 KafkaRead
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
A. A. MilneRead
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
Haruki MurakamiRead
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
Jack KerouacRead
Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.
Julie AndrewsRead
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiRead
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
RumiRead
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!
Oscar WildeRead
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
Virginia WoolfRead
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.
H. P. LovecraftRead
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Louisa May AlcottRead
If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
William ShakespeareRead

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