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“Silence is also a form of speaking.”

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“There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.”

Book:The Plover

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“In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.”

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Book:Unaccustomed Earth

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“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

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Book:The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

“You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence. People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain.”

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Book:The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

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“There are always a million words behind the silence.”

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“The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.”

“It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.”

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Book:Lectures to My Students

Source: Lectures to My Students

“The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.”

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Book:Longinus The Vampire: Babylon

Source: Longinus The Vampire: Babylon

“We are gradually losing the art of silence. Of walking down the street lost in our own thoughts. Of closing the door to our rooms and being quiet. Of sitting on a park bench and just thinking. We may fear silence because we fear what we might hear from the deepest parts of ourselves. We may be afraid to hear that "still small" voice. What might it say? Might it ask us to change?”

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“I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.”

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