Silence
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.