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“I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darknessI am nothing.”
“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meanin...”
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
“They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
“Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”
“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, ...”
“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of ...”
“My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only...”
“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”
“Translation is the art of failure.”
“Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.”
“The thing he said aloud did not succeed.”
“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of ...”
