Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Language
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One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait [The establishing of a fact.]
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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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The recognition that love represents the highest morality was nowhere denied or contradicted, but this truth was so interwoven everywhere with all kinds of falsehoods which distorted it, that finally nothing of it remained but words.