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"With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
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"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child."
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"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
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"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."
Art


"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."
Experience


"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
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"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
Beauty


"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
Life


"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
Life


"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
Art


"In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike."
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"The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation."
Life


"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
Experience
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