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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

“To learn to love, one must first learn to see.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble