George Steiner quote: Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much ...

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

~ George Steiner ~

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