If in the Judaic perception the language of the Adamic was that of love the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George Steiner
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
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No phonetic sign except at a rudimentary strictly speaking prelinguistic level of vocal imitation has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
- George Steiner