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“The true hero trains himself in silence.”

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“I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. After the concert I was walking along with the composer and he was telling me how the performances had not been quite up to snuff. So I said, "Well, I enjoyed the music, but I didn't agree with that program note about there being too much pain in the world." He said, "What? Don't you think there's enough?" I said, "I think there's just the right amount.”

Pain Silence Cage

Author:John Cage

“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.”

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Book:Tigerman

Source: Tigerman

“Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.”

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Book:The Empathy Exams

Source: The Empathy Exams

“The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.”

Book:The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure - Qui se voit de l'intérieur)”

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Author:Charles de Leusse

“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”

Silence Communication Memory

Book:The Garden of Evening Mists

Source: The Garden of Evening Mists

“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words; all that was left were two faintly beating hearts.”

Book:The Geography of You and Me

Source: The Geography of You and Me

“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.”

Silence Habit Rhetoric

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.”

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Book:Poor White

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“There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.”

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Book:The Bastard of Istanbul

Source: The Bastard of Istanbul