“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.”
― Babel
― 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.”
― And Quiet Flows the Don
― And Quiet Flows the Don
“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Chess Story
― 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”
― The Gentle Spirit
― The Gentle Spirit
“If you walk around acting like you don’t care for long enough, people will start to believe you. If you really don’t care, then people who do care will leave your life and people who don’t care will come into it. And if that happens, you will find yourself in a very terrible place.”
― Lost Cat
― Lost Cat
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