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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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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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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
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"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Life


"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
Change


"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
Experience


"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind."
Time


"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
Business


"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."
Death


"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
Work


"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
Man


"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
City


"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."
Writing
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