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"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
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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."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"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."
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"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."
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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
Time
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
Time
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
Life
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
Culture
"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
Language
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell
"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
Men
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
Poetry
"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."
Life
"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
Culture
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