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World Quotes - Page 287

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.27, Penguin

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.13, Faber & Faber

I paint with my back to the world

Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

"American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.127, NYU Press

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]