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“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.”
― Mikhail Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don

“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“And though no one knew about it, she knew, and for me, that was everything, because she was everything for me, all the hope of the future that I cherished in my dreams! She was the person I had prepared for myself, and I needed no one else”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit