
Original: Viviamo in un mondo di illusioni, dove i più saggi, in silenzio, assistono ad un'infinità di ridicole azioni.
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Letter to Edith Parker Kerouac (28 January 1957); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969 (1999)
Original: Viviamo in un mondo di illusioni, dove i più saggi, in silenzio, assistono ad un'infinità di ridicole azioni.
Source: prevale.net
“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”
Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827).
1820s
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Vol. 111, No. 666, (October 1977)
“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in " Sylla http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/sylla.html" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden