"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."
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"If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent."
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"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."
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"I love your silences, they are like mine."
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"The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)"
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"Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence."
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"It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power."
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"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."
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"The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word."
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"Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness."
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"The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing."
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"Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go."
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"Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts."
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"Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one."
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"POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future."
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"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."
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"I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of."
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"Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence."
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"The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence."
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"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."
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