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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."

"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."

"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."

"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."

"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"

"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come tono harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow uponhim, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; forGod Almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. I know allabout it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in thestubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father andmy brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in allthings always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to sendhim without vainglory."

"There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance."

"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
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