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"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
Grief
"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."
Resilience
"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."
Acceptance
"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."
Emotion
"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."
Identity
"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
Observation
"Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
Awareness
"I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine now," I say again, this time for myself.I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.I don't."
Conflict
"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."
Universe
"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."
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