"Every language is a world. Without translation, we……" — George Steiner
"Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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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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More Bordering Quotes
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one of 30 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
— Herb Caen
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence…
— Charles Lyell
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The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems…
— Jean Dieudonne
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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a…
— Garry Kasparov
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering…
— Georges Bataille
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The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on…
— George Galloway
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I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what…
— Glenn Hughes
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From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on…
— James Monroe
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Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily…
— Steven Saylor
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What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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