Marc Tollin
@mtollin
Marc Tollin
That spirit of social initiative disappeared in a short time, pulled away by the fever of the magnets, the astronomical calculations, the dreams of transmutation, and the urge to discover the wonders of the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, ‘If only that hadn’t happened, life would be so good.’ Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path.”
It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Barbara Kingsolver • The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
“And sometimes I have kept
my feelings to myself because
I could find no language to describe them in.”
-Jane Austen
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw