16 Quotes by Shion Miura

And however perfectionist you tried to be, in the end words were alive, in constant flux. No dictionary could ever achieve true completion.

Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.

No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.

You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.

The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words – entry words, definitions, examples – was cold and impersonal at a glance, yet the book as a whole was the result of people puzzling over their choices.

Reading the dictionary could awaken you to new meanings of commonly used words, meanings of surprising breadth and depth.

What lies deep inside the heart can be a mystery even to oneself.