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“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”

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“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”

Silence Solitude

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”

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Book:Marginalia

Source: Marginalia

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”

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Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive”

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Book:The Black Unicorn: Poems

Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems

“Understanding of karma is the basis of the Buddhist faith.”

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Book:The Full Circle for Mick

Source: The Full Circle for Mick

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”

Book:The castle

Source: The castle

“This isn't your fight, Patch," I said quietly. His eyes burned with an intensity I'd never seen before. "You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.”

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Book:Silence

Source: Silence

“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”

Book:The Portable Henry Rollins

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

“We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.”

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Author:Becca Fitzpatrick