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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then…
— Leo Buscaglia
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
— Walter Pater
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.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.
— David Hume
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I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new…
— Nathan Fillion
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
— George Santayana
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Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though…
— David Foster Wallace
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just…
— David Foster Wallace
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Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
— William Feather
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So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that,…
— Andrew McCarthy
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