"Silence is the element in which great things……" — Maurice Maeterlinck

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ..."

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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