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"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
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"Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me."
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"When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence."
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"It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt."
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"When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself."
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"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth."
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"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
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"I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice."
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"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine!"
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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."
Observation
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Art
"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
Learning
"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
Philosophy
"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
History
"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
Health
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"
Philosophy
"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."
Equality
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."
Death
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