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Source: Webster's dictionaryThe reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. André Maurois
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. Victor Hugo
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. Walter Mosley
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain. Tim O'Brien
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. William Blake