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> [“Words fail… As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is beautiful or scandalous in our lives, language fails because it falsifies. Like money, it corrupts the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramon-c-sunico/words-fail-as-a-grudging-admission-after-much-denial-that-even-as-we/)

Ramon C. Sunico

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## More by Ramon C. Sunico

> [“Had she stayed, I would have told her of quite another sea. It does not dance for tourists; it does not dress for youths.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramon-c-sunico/had-she-stayed-i-would-have-told-her-of-quite-another-sea-it-does-not/)

Ramon C. Sunico

> [“Words fail… As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramon-c-sunico/words-fail-as-a-grudging-admission-after-much-denial-that-even-as-we/)

Ramon C. Sunico

> [“So begins their pursuit of beauty: leaves tumble into barrels of water and lye, the green tears of plants steamed to the clarity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramon-c-sunico/so-begins-their-pursuit-of-beauty-leaves-tumble-into-barrels-of-water/)

Ramon C. Sunico

> [“And so their small, subtle verbs mince the universe into tenses, their pronouns and articles slice people into genders. They infect us with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramon-c-sunico/and-so-their-small-subtle-verbs-mince-the-universe-into-tenses-their/)

Ramon C. Sunico

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