Carolina QuotesNow experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Aldous Huxley, in Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
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- 1932
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