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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

— Marcel Marceau

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More quotes by Marcel Marceau

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

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

Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978)

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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