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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“To define is to limit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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