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"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
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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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"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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"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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"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
Art
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
Success
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
Sacrifice
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
World
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
Death
"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
Experience
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
Fear
"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."
Woman
"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
Health
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."
Medicine
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