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Quotes Tagged "inexperience"

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
— Ian McEwan Atonement
Tags: life, inexperience
But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.
— Robertson Davies A mixture of frailties
Tags: wisdom, self-knowledge, music, life, inexperience
I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.
— Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind
Tags: youth, women, uncertainty, uncertain, talk, second-guess, romance, question, ponder, mystery, men, make-a-move, love, like, kiss, inexperience, hope, girl, fear, doubt, conversation, confident, caution, boy, bold
Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind's fateful inexperience, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.
— Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tags: time, past, once-is-never, linearity, lightness, inexperience, history
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