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Silence Quotes
"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
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"She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."
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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."
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"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
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"In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead."
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"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
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"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!"
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"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!"
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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
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"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."
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"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions."
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