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Language Quotes by Simon Van Booy
- Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never…
- I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
- Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
- Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
- Hands have their own language.
- There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
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