Edmund de Waal quotes
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“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”
-- Edmund de WaalSource : Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House
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“The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.”
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“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.”
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“With languages, you are at home anywhere”
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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Source : "The Silent Wife".
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“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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