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Silence Quotes
"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
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"I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice."
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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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"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."
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"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
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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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"She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."
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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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"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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"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 the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."
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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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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
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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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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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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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"Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions."
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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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"Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything."
"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."
"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
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