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Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant o...more

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It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite in...more

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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might s...more

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Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse...more

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Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among h...more

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My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they b...more