Glauber Ribeiro
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with a written language it is always possible to reconstruct a dictionary and a grammar, isolate sentences, transcribe them or paraphrase them in another language, whereas I am trying to read in the succession of things presented to me
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“I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough to carry the responsibility of being the last fluent speakers. She protected us from that spiritual burden. She protected us from that loneliness.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality. But ye can see it only through the lens of Time, in a little clear picture, through the inverted telescope. It is a picture of moments following one another and yourself in each moment making some choice that might have been otherwise.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Thing is, I don’t believe in ghosts. But I see them all the time.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.”
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
― You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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