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“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of the Self, only that can be considered as complete silence (sampurna maun).”

Book:The Flawless Vision

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The Flawless Vision

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“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined. For other women of all ages, colors, and sexual identities who recognize that imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness, and for myself, I have tried to voice some of my feelings and thoughts about the travesty of prosthesis, the pain of amputation, the function of cancer in a profit economy, my confrontation with mortality, the strength of women loving, and the power and rewards of self-conscious living.”

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Book:The Cancer Journals

Source: The Cancer Journals

“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”

Silence Boredom Thoughtfulness

Book:The American

Source: The American

“Silence was my sister's weapon. When people hurt or angered her, she never got loud like Mom or mean and smart-ass like me. Silence was how she fought back. It wasn't passive, or an act of helplessness: it was a cold cruel withering blade, lasting far longer than my mother's rage or my own antagonism, strong enough to make us practically beg for forgiveness every time. Except now her weapon had gone haywire, turned on herself, driven her from her home and her support system and into what-knew-what kind of danger.”

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Book:The Art of Starving

Source: The Art of Starving

“It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.”

Silence Tiger Lily

Book:Tiger Lily

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“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!”

Source: ACross Tic

“Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.”

Silence

Book:We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975

Source: We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975

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