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"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
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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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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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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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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."
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"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."
Truth
"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"
Music
"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
Experience
"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."
Being
"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."
Forgiveness
"Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence."
Desire
"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."
Creativity
"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."
Poetry
"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
Friendship
"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."
Life
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