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Rebecca West

"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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"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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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."

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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."

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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
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"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."
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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
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"I write books to find out about things."
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