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"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital 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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"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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"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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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
Will
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
Trust
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Science
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
Music
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
Man
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
Experience
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