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"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
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"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

"Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it."

"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."

"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
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