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“I guess words, and dictionaries, must always exist in the narrow, perilous space between individual and authority, internal freedom and public governance.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

“they see a dictionary as a way to enhance national prestige. Language helps form a sense of national identity, and, to a certain degree, unification and control of language are necessary to bring a nation together.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

“The memories of the professor were proof that even after life functions cease and the body turns to ash, beyond physical death, the soul lives on. In order to speak of the professor’s aura, his speech and behavior, in order to share their memories and pass them on, words were indispensable.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope, wrought”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage