If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.
Pablo TussetTags: words
To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.
Pablo TussetTags: words reality being concepts
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
Lois McMaster BujoldThe great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.
Carlos FuentesThe dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.
Augusto Roa BastosTags: words
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
Augusto Roa BastosTo write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Augusto Roa BastosLetters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
Augusto Roa BastosWords have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
José SaramagoTags: words
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
Henry David ThoreauTags: words reading books literature
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