"And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it."
Samuel Beckett, 1937 from The Letters
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"It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
T. S. Eliot
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"If there is any deity to me, it’s language."
Joseph Brodsky
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"When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?"
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."
Roland Barthes
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