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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order read more
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; read more
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon
earth: therefore let thy words be few.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language read more
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the
understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and read more
Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the
understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert
the judgment.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
