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"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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Personal Development
"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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Personal Development
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
Fate
"My greatest fear: repetition."
Fear
"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
Change
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug."
Marriage
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
Experience
"A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth."
Truth
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
Fear
"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"
Friendship
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
Income
"It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life."
Life
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