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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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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development

"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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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"Peace is our gift to each other."
Peace

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."
Peace

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."
God

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
Despair

"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."
Experience

"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
Despair

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."
Anger

"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
Destruction

"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
Quality

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
Beginning
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