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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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"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."

"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!"

"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."

"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"

"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?"

"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."

"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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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."


"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."


"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."


"Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end."


"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."


"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
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