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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

  Albert Camus

  Rooms, Saws, Firsts

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.72, Vintage

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Reality, Essence

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• I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

  Robert Breault

  Cat, Moments, Conversation

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• if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
  one. It will not be a pansy heaven or
  a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
  it will be a heaven of blackred roses
  my father will be(deep like a rose
  tall like a rose)
  standing near my
  swaying over her
  (silent)
  with eyes which are really petals and see
  nothing with the face of a poet really which
  is a flower and not a face with
  hands
  which whisper
  This is my beloved my
  (suddenly in sunlight
  he will bow,
  and the whole garden will bow)

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Father, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.28, C.H.Beck

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• A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.

  Graham Kendall

  Reality, Doubt, Deities

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• You are most like Christ, when you remain silent under attack.

  Rick Warren

  Christ

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• O days remember'd well! remember'd all!
  The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
  Those garden rambles in the silent night,
  Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright,
  That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd,
  That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd;
  And then the hopes that came and then were gone,
  Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.

  George Crabbe

  Sweet, Moon, Night

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• Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

  Jean Dujardin

  Black And White, Simple, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Creative, Meditation

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• Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

  Lance Morrow

  Art, Fall, Ideas

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• In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

  Ernst Toller

  Quiet, Kind, Monk

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

  John Donne

  Lying, Judging, Answers

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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• Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Names, Dumb

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• It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

  Jose Saramago

  Fall, Elderly, Scratches

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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Girl, Silent Films, Film

  "‘The Artist’ Star Penelope Ann Miller: ‘It’s A Love Letter To Cinema’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Moving, Moon

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.310, Delphi Classics

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• Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Profound, Depth

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• Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

  William A. Clark

  Marriage, Men, Before Marriage

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• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Stars, Men, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, White, Majority

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

  Octavio Paz

  Two, Knowing, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.96, Arcade Publishing

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