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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
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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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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
Experience
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
Experience
"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."
People
"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."
Emotional
"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
Poetry
"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
Poetry
"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
Folly
"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
Fool
"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."
Poetry
"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."
Feelings
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