"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressable is music."
- From: "Music at Night", 1931, by Aldous Leonard Huxley, writer and critic (1894 - 1963)
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"Silence: quiet, quietness, noiselessness, inaudibility, soundlessness, taciturnity, muteness, dumbness, voicelessness, aphonia, laryngitis, speechlessness, wordlessness, hush, stillness, lull, rest, calm, peace, quietude, quiescence, softness, faintness, mutedness, solemnity, solemnness, solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence, deathly hush, uncanny silence, perfect silence, total silence, not a sound, not a squeak." — Bloomsbury Thesaurus, Bloomsbury 1997
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