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“Conversation is a form of play, and, like any play, it is give-and-take. Turn it into a lecture or a solo performance — and you lose!”
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“The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days, when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of 'two hearts in counsel,' both of which are feminine.”
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“People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part — a sort of drug — this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...”
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“... do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.”
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“The universe gets more disorderly all the time.”
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“... the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies. ”
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“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.”
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“... love and life cannot help but marry and stay married with an exhausting violence of fidelity.”