“When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.”
— Jane Smiley
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“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.”
— Gloria Swanson
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“All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.”
— Bodhidharma
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
— Ansel Adams
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“I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.”
— Mario Monti
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“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”
— George Santayana
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“Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.”
— Catherine Deneuve
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