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Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.

— Gene Wolfe The Book of the Short Sun (1999)

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Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.

The Book of the Short Sun (1999)

An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.

As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.

The Book of the Long Sun (1993)

There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.

The Book of the Long Sun (1993)

People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.

The Wizard Knight (2004)

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Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

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A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown Alma Mater (2001)

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