"Silence is sorrow's best food."
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"My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times."
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"In war personal revenge maintains its silence."
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"Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness."
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"A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it."
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"it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence."
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"her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give."
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"The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter."
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"Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless."
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"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."
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"I stared at him in silence. There were so many things I wanted to say. Like, How could you think what I feel for you is only physical? or, Don't you know you're my best friend? and finally, Bones, I love-"
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"Cat cleared her throat in the tense silence that followed. "Uh, before this goes any further, let’s at least introduce ourselves to your friend. I’m Cat, and this is my husband, Bones. We’re part of Mencheres’ twisted little fang family.""
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"It is only in alert silence that truth can be."
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"Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended."
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"When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence."
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"Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off."
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"To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden."
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"Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence."
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"The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart."
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"The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence."
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