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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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