| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15786 |
| 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 (19081944), French poet, critic. A Night of Serious Drinking, foreword (1938). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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