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A man without words is a man without thought.

East of Eden
The baby understands that its mother loves it. (...) Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Molloy
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

The Dead
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Siddhartha
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.

Siddhartha
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

1Q84
The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one.

Leaves of Grass
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