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

"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!"

"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."

"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?"

"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning."


"What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground."


"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."


"When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett."
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