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"Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does."
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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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"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

"I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them."
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