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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
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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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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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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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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."
People
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
History
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
Habit
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
World
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
Heroism
"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
God
"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
God
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
People
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
Love
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
Public
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