The Importance of Silence in A Wounded World

Edmund Charles Tarbell, “Le voile bleu” peint en 1898.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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