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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."
"I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
"The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever."
"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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