Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results.
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“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn’t that they’ll remember; it’s that you’ll remember. —Sarah Manguso”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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