"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute."

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"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute."

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"I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."

Rumi, Persian Poet

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Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"The word in your mouth is anarchy."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."

Peter Frederick Strawson, British Philosopher

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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Expression, Language, Emotion, Art

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

God

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

Age

"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

Trust

"The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man."

Fear

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

Change

"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."

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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."

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"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."

Beauty

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."

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