Miros

“Don't start doing that."

"What?"

"Agreeing with me," said Jesper. "Sure path to destruction.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel