“The articulate remains always embedded in the inarticulate.”
About This Quote
To live in a place, like this, where perfect words become imperfect as thought and even less perfect as uttered, and what is said is never enough; the banality of finding truth in this constant rotation. We are always speaking against an unspeakable foreground.
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