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"Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence"
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"The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable."
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"The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing."
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"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."
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"There is a place where words are born of silence."
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"When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me."
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"Do not speak - unless it improves on silence."
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"We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them."
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"We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty."
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"In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer."
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"Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life."
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"The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes."
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"Time and silence are the most luxurious things today."
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"The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer."
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"If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders."
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"If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive."
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"When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak."
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"Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."
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"Speech is silver, silence is golden."
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