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«You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.»
«We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.»
«Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
«The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.»
«When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.»
«The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.»
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»

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