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"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."
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"Spoken words have power beyond measure."
"When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts."
"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
"Listening is the art of love and appreciation."
"Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together."
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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind."
"And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring."
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