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"Listening is more important than solutioning."

"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."

"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"

"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."

"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."

"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
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"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."


"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."


"Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences."


"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong."


"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
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