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“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“How reassuring it must be to know how you should act: like having a definition of yourself written clearly in black type.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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