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“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.”
― Yōko Tawada, The Emissary

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Even as ashes, you were sparkling, and impossible to hold, and dancing in the wind, and then, unable to defy gravity.”
― Waka Hirako, マイ・ブロークン・マリコ [Mai burōkun Mariko]