Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.
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