"......Manage to go a few days, a couple of weeks, talking as little as possible. Work silently at the bank, study in silence, an economize on words as much as possible. You will see the effects. Almost immediately you will feel a greater serenity. You will find that you pay attention and see things much more clearly. Words distract a great deal, you can't imagine. You come across men who, to hear them talk, you would say were enemies. And basically they are in agreement without knowing it. Others, on the contrary, talk, thinking they understand one another, and basically they continue poles apart."
The Cypresses Believe in God, p. 416, Jose Maria Gironella
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