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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Isak Dinesen
Silence, Doe, Tales
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.105, Vintage

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Isak Dinesen
Animal, People, Silence
Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

Isak Dinesen
Voice, Silence, Faithful
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.104, Vintage

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