Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we — Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Madame Bovary (1857) pt. 1, ch. 12 (tr. F. Steegmuller)

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