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Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me.

— Marcel Marceau

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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
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