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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Silence is also speech”
Proverb
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave”
George Eliot
“The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it”
Mark Twain
“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
Confucius
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic
