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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.

— Malcolm de Chazal

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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.

A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.

Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.

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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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