"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech."

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"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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