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Language Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- In general, every country has the language it deserves.
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
- Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
- The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
- You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
- Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For…
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