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Words are loaded pistols.

It was greek to me.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

The language of truth is simple.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.