"Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say."
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"Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm."
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"Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence."
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"A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences."
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"The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter."
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"Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible."
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"Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"In these silences something may rise"
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"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
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"In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?"
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"Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence"
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"I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal."
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"Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb."
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"Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended."
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"It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent."
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"I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom.""
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"Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade."
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"Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her."
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"The silence of the envious is too noisy."
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"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
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