I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon
Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI One of the most important things I have found is that no one
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