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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Nothing exists except through language.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.