Speech is civilisation itself. The word, even the — Thomas Mann

Speech is civilisation itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

The Magic Mountain (1924) ch. 6 (tr. H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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