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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mysteries (1960)

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In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.

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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

The hell with it. Who never knew
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Lies (1952)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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