"I learnt silence from the talkative"
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"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity."
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"The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge."
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"most people are perfectly afraid of silence"
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"He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent."
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"The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go."
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"Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues"
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"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"
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"Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased."
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"The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness."
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"I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world."
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"All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."
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"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?"
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"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
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"Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way."
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"The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life."
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"There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence."
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"If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive."
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"Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends."
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"There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence."
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