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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
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"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."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
"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."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."
"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."
"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
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