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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
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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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"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."


"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."


"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."


"I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart."


"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
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