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"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

"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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"The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control."

"In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less."

"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else."

"The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts."

"Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here."

"Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results."

"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."

"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby."

"The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge."
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