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"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
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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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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred."
"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."
"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
"A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy."
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