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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. No

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright

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The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time. – Henrik Ibsen

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Ive told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because youre not necessarily able to tell whats real and whats not. – Gus Van Sant

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

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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