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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
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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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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
Thought
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Achievement
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
Friendship
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Friendship
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
Technology
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
Experience
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
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