George Steiner
"Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity."
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"Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity."
"الكتب - أفضل ترياق ضد غازات المستنقعات من الضجر والفراغ."
George Steiner
"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger."
"الكتب لا تعجل، ولا يستعجلها فعل الخلق؛ إنها"
George Steiner
"My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do."
"كان أبي يهوى الشعر والموسيقى، لكنه في أعماق روحه كان يرى التدريس أسمى ما يمكن للمرء أن يفعله."
George Steiner
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
"نعلم أن المرء قد يقرأ غوته أو ريلكه في المساء، ويعزف باخ وشوبرت، ثم يذهب إلى عمله في أوشفيتز صباحًا."
George Steiner
"Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do."
George Steiner
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
George Steiner
"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
"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world."
George Steiner
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