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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
"Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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