"Silence is also speech" — Proverb

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• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
• A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness… — Margaret Atwood
• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
• Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of… — Saint Basil
• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
• My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days,… — Adele
• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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