George Steiner Quotes
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
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Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
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The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.