Jennifer Velazquez
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Jennifer Velazquez
The humiliating and nightmarish part, she explained to me, was not so much the rejection as being cast against her will as “woman eager for relationship.” In her memoir, “Fierce Attachments,” Vivian Gornick describes the anguish of being ignored by a lover to her female friend: “What I couldn’t absorb,” she writes, “was his plunging us back into th
... See more“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including teaching at Cambridge.
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Since Wittgenstein’s original statement was in German (“Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt”) there are variations based on how it’s translated. For example, it could also be written as “The limits of my language stand for the limits of my world.”
https://medium.com/@lcsterling/the-limits-of-my-language-mean-the-limits-of-my-world-68b94fc1d119
