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"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel."
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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."

"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."

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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."

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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."

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"I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins."

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