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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. - Aldous Huxley
Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point, ch. 16 (1928). Mark Rampion, who speaks these words of exasperation, is modeled on D.H. Lawrence.

Categories: Knowledge, Language, Reality And Realism

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