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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Emile M. Cioran
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
Gordon Getty
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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.


Elie Wiesel
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
Diane Ackerman
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To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.


Kelli O'Hara
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I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.


Susan Egan
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.
Terry Teachout
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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.


George Bernard Shaw
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.


Bayard Taylor
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
J. G. Ballard
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
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I want my words to survive translation.


Kazuo Ishiguro
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
Enrique Iglesias
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.


Desmond Tutu