"Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song."
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"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
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"I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow."
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"I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by."
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"And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay."
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"I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."
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"By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud."
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"We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation."
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"somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near"
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"A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence.""
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
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"Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence."
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"There is no diplomacy like silence."
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"He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent."
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed."
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"We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]"
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"External silence can be the doorway to inner silence."
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"I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent."
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