We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
George Steiner
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when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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