It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.