“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain
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