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World Quotes - Page 129

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.416, A&C Black

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.67, Penguin

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.256, Tin House Books