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> [Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.](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/)

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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/)

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