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“That's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Betrayal. 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

“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
― Enid Blyton, Five on a Hike Together

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War