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Experience Quotes by Andre Gide
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
- An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets…
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
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- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson