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"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."

"We float in language like icebergs " four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience."

"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."

"The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue."
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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."
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