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One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.
André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs  / 



One word and all is saved One word and all is lost.



The word flies and cannot be recalled.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 





What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia / 



What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;

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Words make love.
André Breton  / 





Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen / 





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / 





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
Hannah Arendt / 





Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks / 





Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Gautama Buddha / 





Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
Isidore of Seville / 



Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.



The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde / 





Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - L'Art poétique / 





Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling / 





Too many words leave you speechless.
Hans Jürgen Heringer - Lichtenbergfiguren. Geistesblitze / 





The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes / 





My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal / 





In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Aristophanes - The Birds / 





All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli





Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Alan Watts





The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle / 





For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
Alan Watts - The Book – On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are / 





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.
Hermann Hesse





The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 





The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language / 





Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





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