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Language Quotes by Simone Weil
- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
- The world is God's language to us.
- A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
- If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
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