"In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world."
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"The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience."
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"I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood."
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"Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?"
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"It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever."
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"The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present."
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"The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered."
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"The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression."
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"We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else."
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"Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience."
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"The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us."
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"Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament."
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"Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth."
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"Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton."
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"Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united."
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"Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?"
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"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
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