Jana Vaněčková

“Power floats like money, like language, like theory.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Dying is easy. Happiness is hard.”
― José Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda

“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?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“O homem primeiro tropeça, depois anda, depois corre, um dia voará.”
― José Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda