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"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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Personal Development
"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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Personal Development
"We learn better when learning is a game."
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Personal Development
"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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Personal Development
"When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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Personal Development
"No practice exists in isolation."
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"Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise."
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"MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity."
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"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
Writing
"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."
Art
"You can't test courage cautiously."
Courage
"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."
Society
"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."
Family
"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart."
Life
"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."
Knowledge
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."
Discipline
"Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again."
Love
"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."
Philosophy
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