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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

— Isabel Allende Paula (1994)

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Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Inés of My Soul (2006)

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.

Maya's Notebook (2011)

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2007)

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

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?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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