conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Connecticut with the genre: Humor & Entertainment, Humor?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Thinking Aloud'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Thinking Aloud
  The highest joy of friendship – higher even than the delight of shared ideals – is to witness and defend another's life.
  Generous pity: to heed, embolden, defend another. Selfish pity: to hide, hijack, flee into, their distress.
  Resilient institutions, like resilient marriages, transform goodwill from an occasional blessing into a permanent duty.
  Nothing is deeply experienced – or revealed – unless one encounters it at the right pace. (Music, love, nature, knowledge...)
  Reason's great enemy is not the cult of irrationalism – which still venerates the authentic – but the culture of speed.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: There are four possible reactions to the horrors of the world – and so to the world itself: to justify, to ignore, to accept or to repudiate. (Of which the most popular – and nonsensical – is the first.)
  People quietly disdain anyone they are confident of outliving, whatever his merits – for in this respect, at least, they are the victor and he the already vanquished.
  A turning point in life is the realization that the opportunity for "fresh starts" is over. One then either harnesses oneself brutally, or fumbles for ever.
  Racism's overwhelming subtlety, scale and resilience are systematically underrated – especially by its victims.
  Our greatest illusion about evil is that it knows it is evil; whereas, in fact, the most dreadful destroyers, and the ones most indifferent to forgiveness, are precisely those who "know not what they do".
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: For the sake of originality many prefer a desert where they can stand alone to fertile soils that others have already tilled.
  Raw power is cathartic, but vulgarizes. Thus it will ennoble only as a transition to something more refined.
  It can take far more courage, vision and discipline to sustain great happiness than to withstand long unhappiness.
  Small decisions seem "free", large ones fated – and even the proudest will enjoys this sensation of humility.
  Expressive fragments and well-honed effects may soon be all that stands between the modern spirit and chaos.