"The act of writing is an act of resistance against the chaos of the world."
To write is to make sense of the chaos.
Ideas become a material force when they grip the masses.
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.
To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.