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Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
Mikhail Bakhtin
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Age: 79 †
Born: 1895
Born: November 17
Died: 1975
Died: March 7
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.
Mikhail Bakhtin