But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the a…

Thomas Merton
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But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). The Sign of Jonas, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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