What did George Steiner mean by: Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. - George Steiner Copy
+ Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Borders, Silence, 0 - George Steiner
+ To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Significance, 0 - George Steiner
+ Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Book, Privilege, 0 - George Steiner
+ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Biographies, Majority, Oblivion, 0 - George Steiner
+ To many men… the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Peace, War, 0 - George Steiner
+ Language is the main instrument of man’s refusal to accept the world as it is. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Language, 0 - George Steiner
+ The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Light, Shadow, 0 - George Steiner
+ Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Book, Boredom, Reading, 0 - George Steiner
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
