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“In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.”
Luigi Russolo
“I always hear, read, observe and try to understand all view points, I even focus on trying to find truths in both (which is usually valid anyway)... Nothing is really BLACK or WHITE, there is always the golden middle way and it's this SILENCE in the noise that has always lead me back to my own interpretation of things and provided me with the needed satisfaction.”
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“... a long silent look can easily substitute all words on Earth and a calm presence of a beloved person would always satisfy more than any prose or poetry in the whole freakin' Universe!”
Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimist
“My silence is more valuable than your speech.”
Haifa Sanad
“if my silence is annoying, try my ignorance.”
“Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane because of your own noise.”
Ruben Papian
“What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.”
William Saroyan
“With silence comes fear.”
Bijan Hazemi
“I live in a World filled with laughter and torment. A dark filled place, where many fools come to die; spending most of my days looking for some quiet place to call my own. Knowing of only one other soul, having shared in my same world; A tenant who was known by the name, as the late and great, Vincent Van Gogh.”
Enrique Vega
“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”
Benjamin Franklin