Languages are not strangers to on another.
– Walter Benjamin
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- I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein
- Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
- People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers…strangers are always at risk. – Rachel Caine
- The work of memory collapses time. – Walter Benjamin
- No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity. – Walter Benjamin
- How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! – Walter Benjamin
- Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin
- All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. – Walter Benjamin
- The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there. – Walter Benjamin
- History is written by the victors. – Walter Benjamin
- There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. – Walter Benjamin
- What has been forgotten…. is never something purely individual. – Walter Benjamin
- As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. – Walter Benjamin
- Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin
- Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. – Walter Benjamin
- Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. – Walter Benjamin
- Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 – Benjamin Disraeli
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- Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures. – Avijeet Das
- We all have different needs, thoughts, ideas, visions, languages, colors, and creeds, but we all want peace and happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds. – Debasish Mridha
- It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. – Alan W Watts
- If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. – Anonymous
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- Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. – Elena Ferrante
- They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. – William Shakespeare
- The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. – Roger Bacon
- I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages. – Kevin Hearne
- Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed! – Eddie Izzard
- Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. – NoViolet Bulawayo
- Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life. – Andrew Dalby
- Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you learn to speak, you can never be as good as in your first. – Ahmed Alibage
- Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator. – Nataly Kelly
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- People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture. – Enock Maregesi
- I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. – Neil Gaiman
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- human eyes know to converse well in many a languages & human smiles know well to conceal many a things !!! – pro moods pramodh govindan
- It’s an irony… that we understand humans like the foreign languages… full of miss understanding and miss conceptions. – Deyth Banger