"Meditation is the action of silence."
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"Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with."
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"Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound."
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"Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created."
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"The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death"
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"if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility."
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"If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness."
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"A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice."
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"Some people suffer in silence louder than others."
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"The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence."
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"You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt"
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"Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong."
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"…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."
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"Her silence was the blank space between the words."
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"I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree."
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"The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste."
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"The stillest tongue can be the truest friend."
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"To many mortals silence great gain brings."
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"Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech."
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"the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives."
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