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Vyara Chris
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“The moral of this story is:
Beware the man who faces you unarmed.
If in his eyes you are not the target,
then you can be sure you are the weapon.”
― The Atlas Six
Beware the man who faces you unarmed.
If in his eyes you are not the target,
then you can be sure you are the weapon.”
― The Atlas Six
“So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Докато не откриете, че парите са коренът на всяко добро, сами си просите унищожение. Когато парите престанат да бъдат инструментът, посредством който хората правят сделки помежду си, тогава хора стават инструменти на други хора. Кръв, камшици и пушки - или долари. Направете своя избор - друг няма, а времето ви изтича.”
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“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
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