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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Emile M. Cioran
Silence, Essentials, Speech
"Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran". TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.