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"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
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"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"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."
"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."
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."
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