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“We are just like the living. Hunger is only ravenous hope.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“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
“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
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