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“There is no failure in love,” she said and covered the furrows. The soil was rich; it swallowed a portion of her grief. “And I have loved without measure.”
“You never know. I don't care if anyone else is disappointed. But to some, the very existence of a certain person in this world is in itself, hope.”
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“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
― 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
― 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
“Remember: when humans ascend, they are still human; when they fall, they are still human.”
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“Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other. This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other's embrace.”
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“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?”
― Babel
― Babel
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