Argot Quote by Victor Hugo

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

“...his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”

— Jack London

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

“The people of the world believe the circumstance (avastha) itself to be their real form. Circumstances always have a beginning and they come to…

— Dada Bhagwan

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no…

— Unica Zürn

“Suffering is important. It teaches so much in a little bit of time. In much wisdom there is much grief. And those who increase…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Language is everything, since it is the voice of no one, since it is the very voice of things, the waves and the forests.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright