#experience

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. ↗

— Robert Musil

#fantasy #experience

What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lose your freedom, you are condemned to fail. ↗

— Leon Schgrin

#holocausts #leon-schagrin #the-horse-adjutant #experience

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#experience

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination ↗

— Steve Aylett

#humor #life #love #experience

I felt the presence of the night all about me: a living, breathing entity, whispering soft words against my flesh.  I had never before felt the silken touch of the night caress me as I did now.  It was a frightening, yet exhilarating experience.  It was as if the night itself were attempting to seduce me. ↗

— Rhiannon Frater

#experience

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ↗

— Don Marquis

#optimism #optimist #experience

If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet. ↗

— Cathy Caruth

#freud #literature #psychoanalysis #trauma #experience

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. ↗

— Iain Banks

#experience

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved. ↗

— Ru Freeman

#wrong #experience

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#knowledge #life #poetry #experience