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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

"Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
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