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"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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Personal Development
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."
Bible
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
People
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
Nothing
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
Experience
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
War
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
Man
"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."
Knowledge
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
People
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
Perception
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
Genius
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