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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: paradox
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    Charles Johnson
    “I sent my words out onto the wind
    to paths unseen and parts unknown
    in hopes people will enjoy
    this book of poetic words I've sown”
    ― Charles Johnson, Love Poems and More From the Heart and Soul of Man
    tags: love, love-poems, poetry
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: art, books, language, life, reading, words
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    Tim O'Brien
    “Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love
    tags: language, science, words
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    Simon Van Booy
    “The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”
    ― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
    tags: conversations, language, silence
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, pain
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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    James Frey
    “Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ”
    ― James Frey, My Friend Leonard
    tags: control, pain, suffering, withstand
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Did you really want to die?"
    "No one commits suicide because they want to die."
    "Then why do they do it?"
    "Because they want to stop the pain.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
    tags: intent, pain, suicide
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    George Orwell
    “Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture
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    J.R. Ward
    “There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN
    -Vishous”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Unleashed
    tags: bdb, jr-ward, pain, vishous
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: silence
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    Marianne Moore
    “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
    ― Marianne Moore
    tags: emotion, silence
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    “All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

    (The actual Sylvia Plath quote from "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is:

    "And the message of the yew tree is blackness –
    blackness and silence.")”
    ― from the movie "Sylvia" (2003), incorrectly attributed to Sylvia Plath
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Let silence take you to the core of life.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: life, silence
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    Napoleon Hill
    “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
    ― Napoleon Hill
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    Thomas Harris
    “The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising
    tags: abuse, silence, testimony
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    Joë Bousquet
    “A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.”
    ― Joe Bousquet
    tags: silence, star, wind
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
    If the unheard, unspoken
    Word is unspoken, unheard;
    Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
    The Word without a word, the Word within
    The world and for the world;
    And the light shone in the darkness and
    Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
    About the center of the silent Word.

    Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.

    Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
    Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: silence, word
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    Chaim Potok
    “You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.
    ...
    You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: listening, pain, silence
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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    Neil Gaiman
    “We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: dreams, words
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: remaining-silent, restraint, reticence, words
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: child, criticism, memory, verbal-abuse, words
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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
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    Jodi Picoult
    “words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
    tags: grief, joy, limits, wonder, words
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    William Luce
    “Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”
    ― William Luce, The Belle of Amherst
    tags: emily-dickinson, light
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    Craig Claiborne
    “I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
    ― Craig Claiborne
    tags: on-writing, words, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé
    tags: action, tragedy, words
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