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"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
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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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
Religion
"Woman is at once apple and serpent."
Woman
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
Being
"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."
Woman
"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."
People
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
Reading
"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
Experience
"The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle."
Music
"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
Music
"God will forgive me; that's his business."
Business
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