"We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."
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"A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process."
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"Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse."
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"The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language."
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"Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar."
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"The philosopher caught in the nets of language."
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"We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words."
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"[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling."
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"It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation."
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"I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development."
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"There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry."
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"I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me."
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"We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know."
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"The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us."
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"There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it."
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"That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language."
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"What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?"
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"Language buries, but does not resurrect."
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"Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat."
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"Big-endians and small-endians."
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