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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."

"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."

"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."

"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."

"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters."

"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
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"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."

"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."
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