"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"
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"Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"I’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur."
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
"Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many."
"I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."
"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
"I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries."
"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
"Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success."
"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish."
"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech"
"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."