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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
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"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
"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?"
"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
"I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born."
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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
"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."
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."
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