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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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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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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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Personal Development
"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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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
Process
"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
Hope
"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
Friendship
"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."
Nothing
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"Education is not so important as people think."
Education
"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
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
War
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