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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
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