"The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams."
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"Real action is in silent moments."
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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."
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"When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God."
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"And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem."
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"In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."
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"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave."
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"The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence."
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"Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
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"All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
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"Silence gives us a new way of looking at something."
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"When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning."
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"Silence can never be misquoted."
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"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."
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"I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me."
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"To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."
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"It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be."
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"Silence is all the genius a fool has."
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"The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time."
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