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"I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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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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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."
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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."
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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."
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"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."
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"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."
War
"It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian."
Pity
"The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down."
Language
"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."
Enemy
"As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted."
Father
"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible."
Work
"Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring."
English
"Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life."
Life
"All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious."
War
"Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases."
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