Quotes About Experience

No, yo no me arrepiento de nada. Cada vez me convenzo más de que el sexo es la inocencia misma.

Habíamos dormido en casas campesinas, humildes, sintiendo el roce de la piedra al lado de la almohada, el correteo de los ratones, el extraño crujir de las camas transportando suspiros desde los cuartos matrimoniales, los pasos balbucientes de un anciano y el sonido de caracola del orinal en la noche, el saúco en lucha contra el viento en la ventana, el ir y el venir de las contraseñas centinelas de los perros.

Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

it enhances the mixture of presence and escape that constitutes his "ecstasies,

thus frame the evocation of a nonlinear time in which the after can be richer and more precise than the before, a time that remains in the face of time that passes, a time that provides pleasure and happiness.

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

Thus it is a question of time as material, time that we shape as we please, that we compose and recompose, time that we play with for the pleasure of it.

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

the other and the past coexisted there from the beginning),

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

I was learning from the best.

As we get older the brain actually gets smarter.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

it is impossible for our life to be put on hold, for whatever is happening in the moment is our life.

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!