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Language Quotes

"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."

"Language is the house of Being."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings"

"Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother’s womb"

"Don't use words too big for the subject"

"Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor."

"We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them."

"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."

"The most important thing for me is to work on language"

"To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words"

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives"

"Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words."

"All language is but a poor translation"

"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind"

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