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“True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,”
― Owen Barfield, History in English Words

“...library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books...”
― Owen Barfield, Night Operation

“There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”
― Owen Barfield, History in English Words

“We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.”
― Owen Barfield, History in English Words