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Letter "C" » conversing
«Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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«When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Marriage
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«With thee conversing I forget all time.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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