"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
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"Speak low, if you speak love."
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"The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge."
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"Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better."
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"Create, artist, do not talk."
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"As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity."
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"I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches."
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"I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me."
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"What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?"
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"The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo."
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"Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love."
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"Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence."
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"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
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"It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works."
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"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man."
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"Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can."
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"Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few."
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
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"I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished"
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"Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence."
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