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She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.

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Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

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Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

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In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. . . . He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. . . . The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.

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Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

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To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods. . . is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

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Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

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