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

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“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.”

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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

Source: Poor White

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

Silence Color White

Book:The Bastard of Istanbul

Source: The Bastard of Istanbul

“If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...”

Perfect Silence Quiet Woman Shut Up Mouth

Book:What the Lady Wants

Source: What the Lady Wants

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

Love Relationships Silence Listening Boredom

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“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.”

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”

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Book:Paper Souls

Source: Paper Souls

“The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to the floor, wondering if he'd wake up in mortality. Then the muddled spectra went black, the silence that followed only possible in the deepest sectors of space. Or death.”

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Book:Beyond the Hidden Sky

Source: Beyond the Hidden Sky