"All is known in the sacredness of silence."
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"The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life."
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"By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing."
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"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
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"I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months."
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"What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?"
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"Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself."
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"I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight"
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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
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"Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs."
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"Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away."
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"It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called."
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"Silence is the unbearable repartee."
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"The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look."
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"The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness."
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"What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."
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"I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it."
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"Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden."
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"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth."
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