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It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Your silence gives consent.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.