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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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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."

"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."

"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."

"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
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