"Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations."

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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

— Elizabeth Kostova