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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater

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Failure
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. – Walter Pater

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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. – Walter Pater

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Theres probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to. – Diablo Cody

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So Ive seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody elses airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasnt in – 21 years ago, then Id think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that Id like to fly on. – Richard Branson

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There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But theyre all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they dont handle like a Porsche. – Kevin OLeary

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