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William Golding

"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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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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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

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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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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

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"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"

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"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."

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