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“I need to meet people to be able to write.”
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“History will treat me right.”
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“You’re every single fantasy I've ever had.”
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“The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.”
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“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....”
Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press
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“In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.”
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“To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”
Source : George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks
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“The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.”