Alexis Curt

“إنّ الترجمة ضيافة كونية بالمعنى المتعالي: فهي تستمدّ مشروعيتها من "حقّ" العقل الإنساني، ممثَّلا هنا من خلال النصوص "الأجنبية" التي شكّلت ماهية الإنسانية الحالية، في "المرور" في أفق لغتنا ، بمقتضى "حق" المواطنة في العالم، من جهة ما هو "أرض" روحية لا مناص من اقتسامها بسبب أنّها "كرة"، أي دائرة تأويلية مشتركة ومحدودة هي المحيط التاريخاني الوحيد للعقل الإنساني الحالي.”
― مارتن هيدجر

“In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned a deerskin by working brains into the bloody hide and then chewing it all over until it was soft.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and the screams that filled the air.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy