“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Complete Short Stories
“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”
— Sören Kierkegaard, book Fear and Trembling
Source: Fear and Trembling
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