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The other great silences, those of death, grief, or destiny, do not belong to us.
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There are men in whose presence the greatest of heroes would not dare to be silent; and even the soul that has nothing to conceal trembles lest another should discover its secret.
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There is no silence more docile than the silence of love, and it is indeed the only one that we may claim for ourselves alone.
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It is good to enlarge one’s sorrows, since thus does enlargement come to our consciousness, and there, there alone do we truly feel that we live.
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It is only when life is sluggish within us that we speak: only at moments when reality lies far away, and we do not wish to be conscious of our brethren.
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Some there are that have no silence, and that kill the silence around them, and these are the only creatures that pass through life unperceived.
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Who has not known those silent moments which separated the lips to reunite the souls?