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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own 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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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War
"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
Age
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
Man
"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
Trust
"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
Man
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
Evil
"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
Man
"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
Life
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Fact
"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
God
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