“There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.”— Jorge Luis Borges Related Quotes “Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.”— Anis Mojgani “How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.”— Jack Gilbert “Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”— Alfred de Musset