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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

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“Step out of my sunlight.”
― Diogenes Laertius

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“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.”
― Diogenes Laërtius

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