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"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."

"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."

"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."

"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."

"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."

"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world."

"A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan."

"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."

"Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment."
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