Carolina QuotesExperience 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 coordinating. 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
Source
Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, introduction (1932).
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- 1932
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“Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Helle…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A43AEDAE11. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a43aedae11
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