Posted by: Jean-Paul Malfatti
If someone you are talking with keeps himself mute, take care not to drastically or abruptly break his silence. Sometimes one needs a moment of quiet not to fully explode.
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Silence
Now I say it less in words and more silently in work.
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Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the divine pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the reserved forces of fate. Silence is the only voice of our God.
from the book "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville
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All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by silence.
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Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: reason and right.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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It is silence that most needs an answering: when I can no longer speak, hear me.
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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
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