I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
A different language is a different vision of life.
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