A condom factory worker can ruin a relationship simply by miscounting a dozen.
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“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, “Mother Tongue”
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“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”— Henry Rollins, Solipsist (via books-n-quotes)
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“Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”— Haruki Murakami
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