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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
— George Steiner
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German…
— Fredrik Bajer
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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of…
— John Lanchester
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My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I can speak Esperanto like a native.
— Spike Milligan
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Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives…
— Richard Bach
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Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like…
— Nick Hornby
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The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.
— Joe Hill
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I did a movie in Esperanto.
— William Shatner
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The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes
— Kevin Brownlow
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