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This World Quotes by Yukio Mishima
- What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable…
- There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off…
- Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as…
- ...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
- When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon