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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."

"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."

"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."

"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."

"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."

"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."

"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"

"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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