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QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:René Daumal (1908–1944), French poet, critic. A Night of Serious Drinking, foreword (1938).
 
 
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