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“This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”
“it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.”
“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.”
“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to...”
