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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy,

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. – John Stuart Mill

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. – James Baldwin

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level. – Evan Davis

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