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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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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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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
Soul
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
Fool
"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
Happiness
"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
People
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
Religion
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
Friendship
"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
Creativity
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
Experience
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
Imagination
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