Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or …

Aldous Huxley
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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 thing, 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. ✨ Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5
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