"People who think that grammar is just a……" — Delphine de Vigan
"People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be."
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Delphine de Vigan
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11 Quotes by Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan has 11 quotes on this site.
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I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping…
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Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
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My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
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All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a…
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If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to…
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And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that…
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You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing…
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But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.
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I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I…
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Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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