"What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?"
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"And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence."
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"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing."
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"One word from you shall silence me forever."
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."
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"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
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"Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
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"Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment."
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"If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate"
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"Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."
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"A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves."
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"Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time."
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"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it"
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"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes."
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"I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest."
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"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."
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"In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God."
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"The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence."
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"I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing."
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