He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
James JoyceEvery word is a prejudice.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: language
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
Augustine of HippoEvery word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
Franz KafkaThe change of language is a change in reality.
Stephen MitchellA niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają,
Iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają.
Tags: patriotism language polish poles
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
Jonathan PriceLanguage, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
Chuck PalahniukTags: beauty world language wonder understanding
Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)
Chandler BurrTags: love literature language parenting
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