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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
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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."

"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

"I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that."

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."

"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."

"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."

"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."

"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."
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"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."

"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."

"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."

"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."

"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
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