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"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."
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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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"Many great actions are committed in small struggles."
Action
"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like."
Action
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
Life
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Love
"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
Genius
"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
Will
"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
Love
"Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men."
Inspirational
"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old."
Friendship
"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Strength
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