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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
Kontext: Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Toni Morrison kniha The Bluest Eye
Zdroj: The Bluest Eye
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
Toni Morrison kniha The Bluest Eye
Zdroj: The Bluest Eye
