Famous quotes containing the words indefinite and/or language:
“There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
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