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“[...] after Spinoza, philosophers know that they are using language to clarify language, like cutters using diamonds to shape other diamonds. Language is seen no longer as a road to demonstrable truth, but as a spiral or gallery of mirrors bringing the intellect back to its point of departure.”
― George Steiner

“That's how it is when an oyster and a revolution go down the wrong way! I become miserable again. Oh! what a dreadful old world – of drudgery and beggary and debauchery and butchery – and we get used to it!”
― Victor Hugo

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.”
― George Steiner