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"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
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"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
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"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."
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"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."
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"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."
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"A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits."
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"Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt."
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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."
Wisdom
"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions-there we have none."
Freedom
"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."
Creativity
"She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral."
Reflection
"It is no use trying to sum people up."
Reflection
"You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one."
Society
"Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins-of happiness and unhappiness."
Emotion
"But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
Time
"For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited."
Art
"She felt very young, at the same time unspeakably aged."
Emotion
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