#nic

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#connecting #decency #humanity #communication

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! ↗

— Taylor Mali

#postmodernism #speech #communication

When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed to communicate with Satan who was us- ing my sickness as his home away from home, and there’s your proof. ↗

— Dennis Cooper

#sickness #writing #communication

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#communication #english #language #communication

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. ↗

— Peggy O'Mara

#children #communication #inner-voice #communication

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored ↗

— Alice Walker

#communication

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#psychology #self #communication

Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#julian #meredith-duran #communication

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others. ↗

— Gorgias

#communication

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#reality #communication