Quotes About Experience

otro, a costa de otro; podría haber suplantado a alguien, es decir, en realidad matado a alguien. Los «salvados» de Auschwitz no eran los mejores, los predestinados al bien, los portadores de un mensaje; cuanto yo había visto y vivido me demostraba precisamente lo contrario.

Il mestiere di chimico (fortificato, nel mio caso, dall'esperienza di Auschwitz) insegna a superare, anzi ad ignorare, certi ribrezzi, che non hanno nulla di necessario né di congenito: la materia è materia, né nobile né vile, infinitamente trasformabile, e non importa affatto quale sia la sua origine prossima.

Non valeva la pena di avere vent'anni se non ci si permetteva il lusso di sbagliare strada

this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life.

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered—they are relived.

guess I could start my story by telling you about the school assembly on Monday morning. It will give you a good idea of what has been happening to me. I pushed into the third row of the auditorium

There's a trick to not crying when you peel an onion," Mr. Powell said, tears rolling down his cheeks. "Wish I knew it.

It's bound to be better than my first date! she told him.

Other world! There is no other world! Here or nowhere is the whole fact.

I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vending machines.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it.

Nothing like Rome, boy. Gets us all the first time." "And every time after.

need to remember my failures as much as my successes; they teach me to think harder about the risks I'm taking. Because not all those risks are mine.

Rough company," Dario said. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all.

Don't teach your granddad how to fish.

He'd grown so addicted to the feel of those books—the individual differences in the bindings, the leather or fabric covers, the weight of papers, the smell. They were a very different experience than these Blanks, which all felt so . . . sterile, somehow. Words that could be readily dismissed and replaced didn't have the same moral heft to them, to him

five hundred new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somehow to adapt each year, chemicals totally outside the limits of biologic experience.