“Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion”

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago.

“Only so does Revelation. Shine in the time that rejected you. Only your nothingness is the experience. It is entitled to have of you.”

Gershom Scholem