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“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“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
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
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