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“Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.”

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Nathanael West was an American author born on October 17, 1903, and died on December 22, 1940. Known for his satirical and darkly humorous style, West is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century in American literature. more

“Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.”

Doe Important Seems House Language Bits Interesting Behinds Building Stones Importance Leaving Cards Destroying Investigation Clearing Rubble House Of Cards

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.”

Men Heart Different Language Music Kings Glory Moved Wilderness Thrones

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.”

Want Feels Children Walks Rooms Dying Needed Sick Hospitals Hospitality Sick Children

Author:Princess Diana

“I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.”

Night Turns Asks Names Language Wish Lays Wounds Heal All Night Wraps Folds Something Better Fever Foreheads Wrists Rags Hush Blisters Shh

Author:Julia Margaret Cameron

“Conduct is more convincing than language.”

Language Convincing

Book:The Journal of John Woolman

Source: The Journal of John Woolman

“And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.”

Long Language Nations

Author:John Hookham Frere

“The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.”

Poetry Literature Language Race Danger Imaginative English Literature

Author:Gerald Brenan

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