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I Am Silent Quotes

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

While you judge me by my outward appearance, I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.
- Richelle E Goodrich

Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
- Sylvia Plath

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