Quotes on Great Experiences

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, "Wow, this is a really great book."

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.