Joseph Joubert Quotes on Language

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  1. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

  2. How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  3. Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

  4. Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

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