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> [The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/the-word-in-language-is-half-someone-else-s-it-exists-in-other-people/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

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## More by Mikhail Bakhtin

> [The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/the-catharsis-that-finalizes-dostoevsky-s-novels-might-be-of-course/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/in-poetry-even-discourse-about-doubts-must-be-cast-in-a-discourse/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/what-is-realized-in-the-novel-is-the-process-of-coming-to-know-one-s/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/in-order-to-understand-it-is-immensely-important-for-the-person-who/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/the-word-in-language-is-half-someone-else-s-it-exists-in-other-people/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/words-belong-to-nobody-and-in-themselves-they-evaluate-nothing-but/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/it-becomes-one-s-own-only-when-the-speaker-populates-it-with-his-own/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

> [All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bakhtin/all-words-have-the-taste-of-a-profession-a-genre-a-tendency-a-party-a/)

[Mikhail Bakhtin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bakhtin/)

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