“He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.”
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“I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.”
“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
“His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.”
“He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.”