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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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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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"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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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Enemy
"Education is not so important as people think."
Education
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
Experience
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
Change
"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."
Fame
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
Lie
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
People
"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."
Life
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
Perception
"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
Woman
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