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pass over in silence

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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is strange, though true, that the happiest part of our life is the shortest in detail. We dwell on the tempest that wrecked, the flood that overwhelmed - but we pass over in silence the numerous days we have spent in summer and sunshine. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Some things we must pass over in silence. Greg Iles

We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us - that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence - then we don't like it any more. Stanisław Lem

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