Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Samuel Beckett
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
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George Steiner
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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More Quotes By Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.
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Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.