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"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."

"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."

"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."

"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."

"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

"Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."

"So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world, Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. he had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do."

"Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach."

"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

"She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature."
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