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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
"You are the only one of your kind."
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."
"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
Explore more quotes by Roman Jakobson
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."
"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features."
"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified."
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