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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."
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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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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space."
Sleep
"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
Philosophy
"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
God
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
Nature
"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification."
Beginning
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
Love
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."
Communication
"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."
Art
"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"
Fool
"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."
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