"I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet."
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"My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often."
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"To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time."
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"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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"Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight."
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"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection."
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"The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil."
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"But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably."
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"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm."
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"Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant."
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"I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity."
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."
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"In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet."
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"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."
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"The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet."
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"A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive."
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"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
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"The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting."
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"They tire of quiet, that have known the storm"
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