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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."

"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."

"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."

"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."

"If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical."

"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."

"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
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