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LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world began without human and will end without. Claude Lévi-Strauss

There is not a single person in the world who speaks my language; or in short: not single person speaking; or even shorter: not a single person. Vladimir Nabokov

The earth is equally sad everywhere. Simone de Beauvoir

We admire what We are...

I don't trust people who, without loving themselves, tell me "I love you." There is an African saying: "Be careful when a naked man offers you his shirt. Maya Angelou

How right I am, if all of you are screaming so loudly. Jean-Paul Sartre

"Work out" means "to find the answer or solution." ⠀ Example: I couldn't work out all the answers to the crossword puzzle. ⠀ Example: I was born in 1957: you work out my age.

"Ask out" means "to invite someone for a date." ⠀ Example: Finally, he asked her out. ⠀ Example: She's asked Steve out to the cinema this evening.

Émile Zola.

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

A small clarification for the use of the word ‘sorry’ that I’ve discovered can be confusing for people with English as a second language: there are actually two meanings for the phrase “I’m sorry,” and the only way to tell the difference is context. Meaning one: apology, the obvious one. “I’m sorry I dropped your groceries.” = “I apologize for dropping your groceries.” Meaning two: sympathetic sadness. “Something bad has happened to you, I’m sorry.” = “Something bad has happened to you, I am sorrowed.” Literally the only way to tell which meaning is being used is the context from the rest of the sentence, thinking about it I can see why it would be confusing. Anyway, this is why native English-speakers sometimes seem to apologize for things they didn’t do - we’re not feeling misplaced guilt, our language is just really weird.

"Whip up" = make food or a meal very quickly and easily. ⠀ Example: If you're hungry, I can whip us up some lunch. ⠀ Example: Mother was in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cakes.

no matter what anybody else tells you, when you are learning a new language the first and most important skill is listening. the only time when this may not be the first thing is if you want to learn an alphabet first, but for languages that don't use alphabets or their variants (e.g. mandarin is logographic and script doesn't correspond to sounds), listening is still king. and after you learn that arabic or persian or korean alphabet, listening is still king. too many people learn a language for years, familiarise themselves with the vocabulary and grammar, and can't understand a word of what anyone is saying to them. it's useless if you can't comprehend.

"Take apart" = separate into smaller parts; disassemble. ⠀ Example: He took his car apart to figure out what’s wrong with it. ⠀ Example: My watch stopped, so I took it apart.