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“Expression begins where thought ends.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love, There Is God
“The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?” Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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