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But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Silence, Solitude
Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.