"We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words."
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"Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?"
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"Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield."
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"There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."
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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."
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"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
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"The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance."
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"What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?"
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"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."
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"All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence."
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"The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence."
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"Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come."
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"The silence killed your faith."
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"There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us.""
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"Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years."
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"To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present."
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"The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent."
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"If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence."
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"Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are."
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"Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself."
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