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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
"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."
"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."
"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."
"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..."
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
"War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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