"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
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"The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain."
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"He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself."
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"And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound."
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"I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days."
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"When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence."
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"Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself."
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"A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell"
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"Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow."
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"To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come."
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"The silence was an intense roar."
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"How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract."
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"I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond."
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"The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth."
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"I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence."
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"Writers speak for those who are kept in silence"
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"After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence."
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"It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this."
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"When they remain silent, they cry out."
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"But the silence spoke volumes."
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