“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

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American journalist 1913–1983

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From Manifesto for Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. ISBN 0791442209.
The quote is a commentary on Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".