"Love will find its way through all languages on its own."
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"Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language."
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"Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility."
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"Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English."
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"One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures."
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"The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood."
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"I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile."
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"To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
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"What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak."
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"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"
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"We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words."
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"Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me."
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"How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them."
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"The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it."
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"The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists."
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"You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?"
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"The German language is the organ among the languages."
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"The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on."
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"Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity."
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"over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?"
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