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To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? ↗

— Fiona Apple

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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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