But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

Lian Hearn
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What is the world? This man said he had to live in the world. He didn’t say he could just stay at home, cut off from the rest of the world, or could go out to a garden or a field for his recreation. He said something about the world being here. What does this mean? What is it all there for? Is it not for us?...It is because you are here, because you are in the world, that you think of yourself as in need of so many things and so in want and so in pain and so in sorrow and so in need of love and so in danger.

Source: Across The Nightingale Floor

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