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...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. ↗

— James D. Hornfischer

#combat #war #wwii-history #experience

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him ↗

— Muhammad Asad

#experience

Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold. ↗

— Sylvia Clare

#experience

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. ↗

— Felix Okoye

#author #felix-okoye #life-experience #nigeria #society

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#hard-work #pity #gratitude

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#profound #experience

How funny would it be if we left a trail of Faerie dust in our wake?” “That would be hilarious.” I laughed. “It’s a shame we don’t produce any.” Do we? I idiotically shook my hand as I tried to brandish Faerie dust like Tinkerbell. It didn’t work. ↗

— Cesya MaRae Cuono

#elemental-reality #lola #funny

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#funny #howards-end #funny

A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#beauty-queens #pretty #real #beauty

I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#dying #funny #octogenarian #funny