myspraycansoul:

“I’ve found that we can’t live without talking.”

“I’d like to live without talking.”

“Yes, it would be nice, wouldn’t it? Like loving one another more. But it isn’t possible.”

“But why? Words should express just what one wants to say. Do they betray us?”

“But we betray them, too. One should be able to express oneself. It has been done in writing. Think: someone like Plato can still be understood—he can. Yet he wrote in Greek 2,500 years ago. No one really knows the language, at least, not exactly. Yet something gets through, so we should be able to express ourselves. And we must.”

“Why must we understand each other?”

“We must think, and for thoughts, we need words. There’s no other way to think. To communicate, one must talk. That is our life.”