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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human 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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"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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"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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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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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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"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
Soul
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Experience
"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
Self-Worth
"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
Education
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Experience
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
Self-Worth
"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
Nature
"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
Death
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
Success
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
Humor
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