The best and most pleasurable conversations invariably involve an exchange of ideas and the probing of truth. The memory of such conversations affords happiness well into the future, becoming an inexhaustible reservoir of pleasure even in the direst moments of distress and pain.

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The best and most pleasurable conversations invariably involve an exchange of ideas and the probing of truth. The memory of such conversations affords happiness well into the future, becoming an inexhaustible reservoir of pleasure even in the direst moments of distress and pain.

— Robert Pogue Harrison

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition

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