“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
“To know another language is to have a second soul. ”
“To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.”
“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”
“Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.”
“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ”