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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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