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“Experience cannot be transferred. We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it.”
—H., U.S. womens magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)
“Allusion has been made to [Prousts] contempt for the literature that describes, for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
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