"Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep."

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Source : Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

Edward Hoagland

#Sleep Quotes #Silence Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”
“Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.”
“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
“There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up.”
“It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.”
“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”
“I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

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