After about forty centuries of oral civilisation, the Word is an inflated currency. - Jean Guitton

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After about forty centuries of oral civilisation, the Word is an inflated currency.

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Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999), French philosopher.

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Teresa of Lisieux will give new splendour to the word. What she says, she does. And her words are oracles. I said “words”; I distinguish them from “phrases”. Teresa's phrases, in truth, are imperfect. Imperfect because of the weakness of men, who have given her a very mediocre language.

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