Silence

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Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to a fellow mortal, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox. He knows that ninety-nine per cent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz, and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure. The object of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas: it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz: there is the even buzz that is as exasperating as the continuous ping of a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a mute. Most buzzing, fortunately, is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable to the mind. He would be a foolish man, however, who waited till he had a wise thought before taking part in the buzzing with his neighbours. Those who despise the weather as a conversational opening seem to me to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except thet they have seen two or three new plays or that they have had bad food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length they congratulate themselves on their success as conversationists.


Robert Lynd

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[banani]

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Humans live in society. And humans naturally express themselves. But sometimes the best way to express oneself is by silence. When everyone else is buzzing with useless talking, the silence can be the loudest of them all. Silence is not unnatural to humans, but it is used as much in communicating a point as talking at times

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[banani]

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Actually perfect
Thanks a lot
Go a head my brother
Without you we never find topics in English club
Really thanks

Thanks a lot for your words . I appreciate them

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this is new information for me

I think women like to talk in nothing and everything

so thank you so much for sharing us

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