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"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."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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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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"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
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"The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say."
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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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"Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust."
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"Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?"
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
Thought
"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'"
People
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
World
"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."
Dance
"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise."
Friendship
"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."
Life
"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
Reading
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
Time
"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."
Truth
"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"
Time
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