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Experience Quotes
"Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone, each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
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"Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth."
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"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy."
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"While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power."
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"Experience is the opposite of education."
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"If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. 'We' have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down."
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"I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences."
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"If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids."
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"Life's experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days."
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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."
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"It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters."
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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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"The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you."
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"I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream."
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"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
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"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
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"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."
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"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Enjoy the music to understand it!"
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"There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us."
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"If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air."
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"Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them....Pay Attention And Learn From Them."
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"We only truly understand what we experience."
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"Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"When people say 'If I only knew then what I know now' makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now."
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"Our senses are often the gateway to our stories."
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"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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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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"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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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 wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."
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"A life without having loved someone is a life never lived."
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"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."
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"Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have."
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