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"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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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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"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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"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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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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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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"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Travel
"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."
Society
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
People
"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Concern
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
Experience
"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."
Time
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Man
"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
Power
"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."
Politics
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