"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms."
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Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
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